This is an analysis of the poem The Things That Grow that begins with:
It was nothing but a little neglected garden,
Laurel--screened, and hushed in a hot stillness;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebXXdXedXaccfcbXbeXfXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101001010 1011100110 11111101001 111100110101 10100111010 10010110110 1111000011010 11110100110 11010111110 00011001101 010100101110 1010010010101 101100101001 1101101111 001010101011 0101100111010 100010001001 010110010101 10110100101 0100111001011 101110010010 111110101011 1011110010010 10011111101 01001011010010 101100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1256
- Average number of words per stanza: 221
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, with, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Things That Grow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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