New feet within my garden go
New feet within my garden go,New fingers stir the sod;A troubadour upon the elmBetrays the solitude.
New children play upon the green,New weary sleep below;And still the pensive spring returns,And still the punctual snow!
Words in this poem
- punctual a.
- Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended. [F. ponctuel (cf. Sp.puntual, It. puntuale), from L. punctum point. See Point.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
New feet within my garden go is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete, Project Gutenberg ebook #12242; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
New feet within my garden go is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. The metre is common measure, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 95%).
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 2 -A-A green · belowA · returns · snowA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against common measure. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| New feet within my garden go, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| New fingers stir the sod; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| A troubadour upon the elm | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Betrays the solitude. | 6 | ˘/·/˘· |
| New children play upon the green, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| New weary sleep below; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| And still the pensive spring returns, | 8 | ···/˘·˘/ |
| And still the punctual snow! | 7 | ···/˘˘· |
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