Analysis of Alone In The Garden



Come what may, whatever will;
a kiss from your lips, I'll never feel.
A visit to the garden, my private place;
surrounded by none, wounds to erase.

Where loneliness grows, to reap my sorrow;
filling a basket of despair, to sell tomorrow.
Sitting in silence, among the dust;
patiently waiting, for life to rust.

Although cloudy, there is no rain;
through the haze, responds my pain.
No shade from trees within, no roots to bind the soil;
nothing around at all, to show for my toil.

Falling to slumber, as approaches summer;
breaking the spell, that I have fallen under.
As I stand to leave, for I have my pardon;
it is only I, within my Empty Garden.


Scheme XXAA BBCC DDEE FFGG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 111101 011111101 01010101101 010111101 1100111110 100101011101 100100101 100101111 1101111 1010111 111101111101 10011111111 10110101010 10011111010 11111111110 111010111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 655
Words 120
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on January 16, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Gabriel McBride

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