Analysis of Night Coming Into A Garden
Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 (Worcestershire) – 1945 (Lancing)
Roses red and white,
Every rose is hanging her head,
Silently comes the lady Night,
Only the flowers can hear her tread.
All day long the birds have been calling,
Calling shrill and sweet,
They are still when she comes with her long robe falling
Falling down to her feet.
The thrush has sung to his mate,
' She is coming ! hush ! she is coming ! '
She is lifting the latch at the gate,
And the bees have ceased from their humming.
I cannot see her face as she passes
Through my garden of white and red ;
But I know she has walked where the daisies and grasses
Are curtseying after her tread.
She has passed me by with a rustle and sweep
Of her robe (as she passed I heard it sweeping),
And all my red roses have fallen asleep,
And all my white roses are sleeping.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD ECEC FBFB GCGC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101 100111001 10010101 100101101 111011110 10101 111111101110 101101 0111111 111011110 111001101 001111110 1101011110 11101101 1111111010010 111001 11111101001 10111111110 01111011001 011110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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