Analysis of No Garden Filled My Pains



If windows opened wider to greener gardens,
And shutters not stormed in repeated regressions,
If kindness called in more pleasant passings,
Would I be willed, revered, a chassis charmed?

Or would haste not hold my hands so steady,
And troublesomed trials be made to mold,
If hearts heaved hurts in louder lamentings,
Would I beg no more, boundless, of concerns craved?

But none no more, do desires dispel a flame,
And all this want weaves in fabric flawed knittings,
If cares contained canvases of regained realities,
Would I black pages, bleeding, of ventricles veined?


Scheme AAAB XXAX XAXB
Poetic Form
Metre 110101011010 010110010010 110101101 1111010101 1111111110 01101111 11110101 11111101011 111110100101 0111101011 110110010110 1111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 559
Words 94
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on June 01, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jessie Ní Leacaí

I'm an Irish speaker, Belfast based. I design hats and headpieces in the wonderful art of millinery. I enjoy science, culture,art, music and have an affinity with the sea. I use 'big words' so invest in a dictionary when reading my poetry. I tolerate no ignorance more…

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