Analysis of The Gardener



A gardener,
 like a mother,
watches over her plants,
Watches her seedlings grow,
Watches as they spread their wings through life,
Producing some of their own,
Just silently stands back,
Watching from a distance,
The gardener gives all they need in life to begin,
Before they make their own,
It’s their choice to be happy or angry,
But in the end,
The gardener has done all they can do,
And will still always love them.


Scheme AABCDEFGHEIJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 0100 1010 101001 100101 101111111 0101111 110011 101010 0100111101101 011111 1111110110 1001 0100111111 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 420
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 328
Words per stanza (avg) 75

About this poem

I wrote it for all those mums who can relate. At first I was going to do one about nature and how beautiful it is, but ideas just kept popping in my mind, whilst writing this.

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Written on November 10, 2022

Submitted by darktigernightmare on November 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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