Analysis of New College Gardens, Oxford
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
ON this old lawn, where lost hours pass
Across the shadows dark with dew,
Where autumn on the thick sweet grass
Has laid a weary leaf or two,
When the young morning, keenly sweet,
Breathes secrets to the silent air,
Happy is he whose lingering feet
May wander lonely there.
The enchantment of the dreaming limes,
The magic of the quiet hours,
Breathe unheard tales of other times
And other destinies than ours;
The feet that long ago walked here
Still, noiseless, walk beside our feet,
Poor ghosts, who found this garden dear,
And found the morning sweet!
Age weeps that it no more may hold
The heart-ache that youth clasps so close,
Pain finely shaped in pleasure's mould,
A thorn deep hidden in a rose.
Here is the immortal thorny rose
That may in no new garden grow--
Its root is in the hearts of those
Who walked here long ago.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEF XCXC GXGHHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 0101111 11010111 11010111 10110101 11010101 101111001 110101 001010101 010101010 10111101 010100110 01110111 11101101 11111101 010101 11111111 01111111 1101011 01110001 110010101 11011101 11100111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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