This is an analysis of the poem The Magic Wand that begins with:
As an April garden
Breathes the scent of rain -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaa cdXdd cefee bgbgg XaXaa fhihh jjfjjXhiiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 10101 111010 10101 111010001001 001010 10101 111110 001001 101010101001 011010 01111 111010 10111 10111010101 001010 11101 101110 10101 101001110101 101011 01101 101110 10111 1001100111101 101110 10101 111110 00111 10110011101 111010 11111 101010 10111 10111110101 101010 1010010 1001010 001110 10001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rain connects the lines.
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