Analysis of The Garden of Shadow
Ernest Christopher Dowson 1867 – 1900
Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind
Against the perfect flowers: thy garden's close
Is grown a wilderness, where none shall find
One strayed, last petal of one last year's rose.
O bright, bright hair! O mouth like a ripe fruit!
Can famine be so nigh to harvesting?
Love, that was songful, with a broken lute
In grass of graveyards goeth murmuring.
Let the wind blow against the perfect flowers,
And all thy garden change and glow with spring:
Love is grown blind with no more count of hours
Nor part in seed-time nor in harvesting.
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC DCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1111010101 01001101101 1101001111 1111011111 1111111011 1101111100 111110101 01111100 10110100110 0111010111 11111111110 1101110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 535 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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