In Her Garden of Yaddo
Hours fly,Flowers dieNew days,New ways,Pass by.Love stays.
Time isToo Slow for those who Wait,Too Swift for those who Fear,Too Long for those who Grieve,Too Short for those who Rejoice;But for those who Love,Time is not.
About this text
In Her Garden of Yaddo is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke, Project Gutenberg ebook #16229; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Henry Van Dyke, In Her Garden of Yaddo, in The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1925), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16229, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/van-dyke-poems/in-her-garden-of-yaddo.html, id L22865.
Form and metre
In Her Garden of Yaddo is 13 lines in 2 stanzas. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
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Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
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.
- 1 AABBAB flyA · dieA · daysB · waysB · byA · staysB
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 iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Hours fly, | 3 | /˘· |
| Flowers die | 3 | /˘· |
| New days, | 2 | ·· |
| New ways, | 2 | ·· |
| Pass by. | 2 | ·· |
| Love stays. | 2 | ·· |
| Time is | 2 | ·· |
| Too Slow for those who Wait, | 6 | ······ |
| Too Swift for those who Fear, | 6 | ······ |
| Too Long for those who Grieve, | 6 | ······ |
| Too Short for those who Rejoice; | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| But for those who Love, | 5 | ····· |
| Time is not. | 3 | ··· |
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