Analysis of In The Garden V: A Summer Moon

Edward Dowden 1843 (Cork) – 1913



QUEEN-MOON of this enchanted summer night,
One virgin slave companioning thee,--I lie
Vacant to thy possession as this sky
Conquer'd and calm'd by thy rejoicing might;
Swim down through my heart's deep, thou dewy bright
Wanderer of heaven, till thought must faint and die,
And I am made all thine inseparably,
Resolv'd into the dream of thy delight.
Ah no! the place is common for her feet,
Not here, not here,--beyond the amber mist,
And breadths of dusky pine, and shining lawn,
And unstirr'd lake, and gleaming belts of wheat,
She comes upon her Latmos, and has kiss'd
The sidelong face of blind Endymion.


Scheme ABBAABCADEFDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 11011111 1011010111 1001110101 1111111101 100110111101 01111101000 0101011101 1101110101 1111010101 011110101 011010111 110101011 011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 616
Words 108
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 475
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edward Dowden

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