Analysis of A Girl's Garden
Robert Lee Frost 1874 (San Francisco, California) – 1963 ( Boston, Massachusetts)
A neighbor of mine in the village
Likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why not?"
In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, "Just it."
And he said, "That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm."
It was not enough of a garden
Her father said, to plow;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.
She wheeled the dung in a wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,
And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.
A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn,
And even fruit trees.
And yes, she has long mistrusted
That a cider-apple
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.
Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.
Now when she sees in the village
How village things go,
Just when it seems to come in right,
She says, "I know!
"It's as when I was a farmer..."
Oh never by way of advice!
And she never sins by telling the tale
To the same person twice.
Scheme | ABCB DEXE DFXF XGXG HIXI JKXK BLHL XMXM CXXN NHBH AJXJ DOXO |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (92%) |
Metre | 010110010 111111 1110110111 011 1111010 1100101 11010101 01111 010011010 1111101 111110111 01111 01111111 101111 011011111 11111 111011010 010111 111111111 11111 11010010 010111 11110101 0111 0111010 011101 11111101 11111 0111010 100101 01011101 01011 01111010 101010 01010110 11111 0110100 111101 0101110 01111 11110010 11011 11111101 1111 11111010 11011101 0110111001 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,381 |
Words | 293 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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