Analysis of Cabbage Gardens
SUSAN HOWE 1937
The past
will overtake
alien force
our house
formed
of my mind
to enter
explorer
in a forest
of myself
for all
my learning
Solitude
quiet
and quieter
fringe
of trees
by a river
bridges black
on the deep
the heaving sea
a watcher stands
to see her ship
winging away
Thick noises
merge in moonlight
dark ripples
dissolving
and
defining
spheres
and
snares
Place of importance as in the old days
stood on the ramparts of the fort
the open sea outside
alone with water-birds and cattle
knee-deep in a stream
grove of reeds
herons watching from the bank
henges
whole fields honeycombed with souterrains
human
bones through the gloom
whose sudden mouth
surrounded my face
a thread of blue around the coast
feathery moon
eternity swallows up time
peaceable as foam
O cabbage gardens
summer’s elegy
sunset survived
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Metre | 01 110 1001 101 1 111 110 010 0010 11 11 110 10 10 0100 1 11 1010 101 101 0101 0101 1101 1001 110 101 110 010 0 010 1 0 1 1101010011 1101101 010111 011101010 11001 111 1010101 1 11111 10 1101 1101 01011 01110101 1001 01001011 10011 11010 10100 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,164 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 33, 20 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
About this poem
Susan Howe, excerpt from “Cabbage Gardens” from Frame Structures: Early Poems, 1974-1979. Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1996 by Susan Howe. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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Written on 1974
Submitted by Drone232 on June 10, 2022
Modified on April 26, 2023
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