Analysis of The Garden Burning
Long before the clocks ticked,
the garden was burning
The law had been laid down,
only the animals ran free
Long before the clocks ticked,
two lovers were yearning
The power, the struggle
—the lust to deceive
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | Ab xx Ab xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 010110 011111 10010011 101011 110010 010010 01101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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