Analysis of In Garden Shadows
Out in the amber summer afternoon
Just wandering about chrysanthemums
With parasol so like a pink balloon,
Her tiny mouth was sucking sugarplums.
Her dress of flowing lace, her misty hair
While floating down the garden path distill
the evening sunlight, now withdrawing, wear
The intermittent shadows at her will.
Then gently, but yet suddenly, the sheen
of garden lamps enwraps her parasol;
She hears my sigh behind an evergreen
As twilight, stiller than the shadows, fall.
Is it too late to risk the light's decline?
But then by her own words her night is mine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101001 1100010100 11110101 01011101 0111010101 1101010101 010110101 00101101 1101110001 1101101 111101110 11101011 1111110101 1110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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