Analysis of A Garden-Seat At Home
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
Oh, no; I would not leave thee, my sweet home,
Decked with the mantling woodbine and the rose,
And slender woods that the still scene inclose,
For yon magnificent and ample dome
That glitters in my sight! yet I can praise
Thee, Arundel, who, shunning the thronged ways
Of glittering vice, silently dost dispense
The blessings of retired munificence.
Me, a sequestered cottage, on the verge
Of thy outstretched domain, delights; and here
I wind my walks, and sometimes drop a tear
O'er Harriet's urn, scarce wishing to emerge
Into the troubled ocean of that life,
Where all is turbulence, and toil, and strife.
Calm roll the seasons o'er my shaded niche;
I dip the brush, or touch the tuneful string,
Or hear at eve the unscared blackbirds sing;
Enough if, from their loftier sphere, the rich
Deign my abode to visit, and the poor
Depart not, cold and hungry, from my door.
Scheme | ABBACCDBEFGEHHIJJIKL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 11011001 010110111 1101000101 1100111111 1100110011 11001100101 0101011 1001010101 1101010101 1111001101 1011110101 0101010111 1111000101 11010101101 1101110101 111101101 01111100101 1101110001 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 861 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 685 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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