Analysis of The Garden Of Epicurus
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
That Garden of sedate Philosophy
Once flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,
A shining spot upon a shaggy map;
Where mind and body, in fair junction free,
Luted their joyful concord; like the tree
From root to flowering twigs a flowing sap.
Clear Wisdom found in tended Nature's lap
Of gentlemen the happy nursery.
That Garden would on light supremest verge,
Were the long drawing of an equal breath
Healthful for Wisdom's head, her heart, her aims.
Our world which for its Babels wants a scourge,
And for its wilds a husbandman, acclaims
The crucifix that came of Nazareth.
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Metre | 1101010100 110111001 0101010101 1101001101 11101101 11110010101 1101010101 1100010100 11011111 0011011101 101110101 1011111101 01110101 010111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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