Analysis of Garden Path
How do you balance
the kind and the cruel
The good and the bad
of life’s golden rule
As reason pulls tightly,
treason pulls back
Living in conflict,
together intact
Tragic, comedic,
while often as both
Angels and Demons
commingle betrothed
A savior, destroyer,
calling our name
A garden of riches
—caught in the flames
(Haverford College: February, 2021)
| Scheme | XX AX BX XX XX XA XX XX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 010010 01001 11101 110110 1011 10010 01001 10010 11011 10010 0101 010010 10101 010110 1001 10010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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