Analysis of The Garden of Love
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
I laid me down upon a bank,
Where Love lay sleeping;
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping.
Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And 'Thou shalt not,' writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFXF XGEG XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (25%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 11110 11010101 1010 111101001 101001101 011111001 101001101 11101011 01111011 01011001 11111101 001111001 011111001 111101011 11101101 01111111 0111011 0101101011 01011110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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