Analysis of The Gardener
Every morning, as soon as I wake,
I head to my garden with my trusty rake.
I clear the debris and water the soil,
My life as a gardener is a life of toil.
As I water my flowers, I’m planting more seeds,
Then using my hoe to get rid of weeds.
Killing the weeds can be really slow,
But it helps my flowers to grow.
There’s a variety of flowers that I tend every day,
That could be arranged into a bouquet.
Carnations, Roses, Tulips and more,
All of my flowers I simply adore.
Some flowers are old and some of them new.
They glisten in the sun with the morning dew.
All of them need water and plenty of light.
My flowers need love for them to grow right.
Too little water, or too little sun,
Could destroy all of the work that I’ve done.
Same with too much; water or shine,
The right amount of both for these flowers of mine.
Sometimes my flowers wilt on their own,
No matter how much love I have shown.
Sometimes some of my flowers die,
And I sit in my garden and silently cry.
Then my attention turns to the flowers that remain.
From tending my garden I never abstain.
You may not know it, or maybe you do,
But in someone else’s garden, I am a flower, too.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1001011111 11111011101 1100101001 111010010111 111011011011 1101111111 100111101 11111011 1001001101111001 1110101001 010101001 1111011001 1101101111 11000110101 11111001011 1101111111 1101011101 1011101111 11111011 010111111011 011101111 110111111 01111101 011011001001 1101011010101 11011011001 1111111011 1011010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,169 |
Words | 262 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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