Analysis of The Garden Seat

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



Its former green is blue and thin,
And its once firm legs sink in and in;
Soon it will break down unaware,
Soon it will break down unaware.

At night when reddest flowers are black
Those who once sat thereon come back;
Quite a row of them sitting there,
Quite a row of them sitting there.

With them the seat does not break down,
Nor winter freeze them, nor floods drown,
For they are as light as upper air,
They are as light as upper air!


Scheme aaBB ccBB ddbb
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011101 011111000 1111101 1111101 111101011 11110111 10111101 10111101 11011111 11011111 111111101 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 434
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Modified on May 03, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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