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.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFE GFG
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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