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.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EDEX FF
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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