Analysis of Song
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy 1844 (London) – 1881 (London)
I made another garden, yea,
For my new Love:
I left the dead rose where it lay
And set the new above.
Why did my Summer not begin?
Why did my heart not haste?
My old Love came and walk’d therein,
And laid the garden waste.
She enter’d with her weary smile,
Just as of old;
She look’d around a little while
And shiver’d with the cold:
Her passing touch was death to all,
Her passing look a blight;
She made the white rose-petals fall,
And turn’d the red rose white.
Her pale robe clinging to the grass
Seem’d like a snake
That bit the grass and grounds, alas!
And a sad trail did make.
She went up slowly to the gate,
And then, just as of yore,
She turn’d back at the last to wait
And say farewell once more.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11010101 1111 11011111 010101 11110101 111111 11110101 010101 1110101 1111 11010101 01101 01011111 010101 11011101 010111 01110101 1101 11010101 001111 11110101 011111 11110111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 537 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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