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 |
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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