Analysis of In A Garden
Elizabeth Jennings 1926 (Boston) – 2001
When the gardener has gone this garden
Looks wistful and seems waiting an event.
It is so spruce, a metaphor of Eden
And even more so since the gardener went,
Quietly godlike, but of course, he had
Not made me promise anything and I
Had no one tempting me to make the bad
Choice. Yet I still felt lost and wonder why.
Even the beech tree from next door which shares
Its shadow with me, seemed a kind of threat.
Everything was too neat, and someone cares
In the wrong way. I need not have stood long
Mocked by the smell of a mown lawn, and yet
I did. Sickness for Eden was so strong.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011110 1100110101 11110100110 01011101001 100111111 111101001 1111011101 1111110101 1001111111 111110111 10111011 0011111111 1101101101 1110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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