In A Garden

Elizabeth Jennings 1926 (Boston) – 2001



When the gardener has gone this garden
Looks wistful and seems waiting an event.
It is so spruce, a metaphor of Eden
And even more so since the gardener went,
  
Quietly godlike, but of course, he had
Not made me promise anything and I
Had no one tempting me to make the bad
Choice. Yet I still felt lost and wonder why.
  
Even the beech tree from next door which shares
Its shadow with me, seemed a kind of threat.
Everything was too neat, and someone cares
  
In the wrong way. I need not have stood long
Mocked by the smell of a mown lawn, and yet
I did. Sickness for Eden was so strong.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFE GFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 578
Words 118
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

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