Analysis of The Temple Garden
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
The fountain's low singing is heard on the wind,
Like a melody bringing sweet fancies to mind;
Away in the distance is heard the far sound
From the streets of the city that compass it round,
Like the echo of mountains, or ocean's deep call:
Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all.
The turf and the terrace slope down to the tide
Of the Thames, that sweeps onwards a world at its side;
And dark the horizon with mast and with sail
Of the thousand tall ships that have weather'd the gale;
While beyond the arched bridge the old abbey appears,
Where England has garnered—the glories of years.
There are lights in the casement—how weary the ray
That asks from the night time the toils of the day!
I fancy I see the brow bent o'er the page,
Whose youth wears the paleness and wrinkles of age;
What struggles, what hopes, what despair may have been.
Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green!
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011101 101001011011 01001011011 101101011011 101011011011 11111011101 01001011101 101111001111 01001011011 101011111001 101011011001 11011001011 11100111001 11101101101 110110111001 1110101011 11011101111 11111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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