Analysis of A Garden By The Sea
William Morris 1834 (Walthamstow) – 1896 (London)
I KNOW a little garden-close,
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might
From dewy morn to dewy night,
And have one with me wandering.
And though within it no birds sing,
And though no pillared house is there,
And though the apple-boughs are bare
Of fruit and blossom, would to God
Her feet upon the green grass trod,
And I beheld them as before.
There comes a murmur from the shore,
And in the close two fair streams are,
Drawn from the purple hills afar,
Drawn down unto the restless sea:
Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee,
Dark shore no ship has ever seen,
Tormented by the billows green
Whose murmur comes unceasingly
Unto the place for which I cry.
For which I cry both day and night,
For which I let slip all delight,
Whereby I grow both deaf and blind,
Careless to win, unskilled to find,
And quick to lose what all men seek.
Yet tottering as I am and weak,
Still have I left a little breath
To seek within the jaws of death
An entrance to that happy place,
To seek the unforgotten face,
Once seen, once kissed, once reft from me
Anigh the murmuring of the sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11110011 11110111 11011101 01111100 01011111 01110111 01010111 11010111 01010111 0111101 11010101 00011111 11010101 11100101 11111111 11111101 1010101 11011 10011111 11111101 11111101 01111101 10110111 01111111 110011101 11110101 11010111 11011101 11011 11111111 10100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,107 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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