Analysis of Trees in the Garden
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
Ah in the thunder air
how still the trees are!
And the lime-tree, lovely and tall, every leaf silent
hardly looses even a last breath of perfume.
And the ghostly, creamy coloured little tree of leaves
white, ivory white among the rambling greens
how evanescent, variegated elder, she hesitates on the green grass
as if, in another moment, she would disappear
with all her grace of foam!
And the larch that is only a column, it goes up too tall to see:
and the balsam-pines that are blue with the grey-blue blueness of
things from the sea,
and the young copper beech, its leaves red-rosy at the ends
how still they are together, they stand so still
in the thunder air, all strangers to one another
as the green grass glows upwards, strangers in the silent garden.
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Metre | 100101 11011 00111001100110 101010011101 0010101010111 11001010101 10101000101101011 110010101101 110111 00111100101111111 001011111011101 1101 00110111110101 11110101111 0010111011010 101111010001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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