Analysis of A Kentish Garden
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THERE is a grey-walled garden, far away
From noise and smoke of cities, where the hours
Pass with soft wings among the happy flowers,
And lovely leisure blossoms every day.
There, tall and white, the sceptral lily blows;
There grow the pansy, pink, and columbine,
Brave hollyhocks, and star-white jessamine,
And the red glory of the royal rose.
There greeny glow-worms gem the dusky lawn,
The lime-trees breathe their fragrance to the night,
Pink roses sleep, and dream that they are white,
Until they wake to colour with the dawn.
There, in the splendour of the sultry noon,
The sunshine sleeps upon the garden bed
Where the white poppy droops a drowsy head
And dreams of kisses from the white full moon.
And there, some days, all wild with wind and rain,
The tossed trees show the white side of their leaves,
While the great drops drip from the ivied eaves,
And birds are still--till the sun shines again.
And there, all days, my heart goes wandering,
Because there, first, my heart began to know
The glories of the summer and the snow,
The loveliness of harvest and of spring.
There may be fairer gardens; but I know
There is no other garden half so dear;
Because 'tis there, this many, many a year,
The sacred, sweet, white flowers of memory grow!
Scheme | ABBA CXXC DEED FGGF XHHX IJJI JKKJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1101110101 11011101010 11110101010 01010101001 110101101 110101010 110011100 0011010101 11111011 0111110101 1101011111 011111101 100110101 011010101 1011010101 0111010111 0111111101 0111011111 101111011 0111101101 0111111100 0111110111 0101010001 01110011 1111010111 1111010111 01111101001 010111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,259 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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