Analysis of The Sunken Garden
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Speak not — whisper not;
Here bloweth thyme and bergamot;
Softly on the evening hour,
Secret herbs their spices shower,
Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh,
Lean-stalked, purple lavender;
Hides within her bosom, too,
All her sorrows, bitter rue.
Breathe not — trespass not;
Of this green and darkling spot,
Latticed from the moon's beams,
Perchance a distant dreamer dreams;
Perchance upon its darkening air,
The unseen ghosts of children fare,
Faintly swinging, sway and sweep,
Like lovely sea-flowers in its deep;
While, unmoved, to watch and ward,
'Mid its gloomed and daisied sward,
Stands with bowed and dewy head
That one little leaden Lad.
Scheme | AABBBBCC AADDEEFFGGXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11101 11101 10101010 10111010 111001 1110100 1010101 1010101 1111 111011 11011 01010101 010111001 00111101 1010101 110110011 1011101 111011 1110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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