This is an analysis of the poem The Cap And Bells that begins with:

THE jester walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdbebaaXafgdgegbgcXXXXgegXhahXdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010010 0101101 1101110 1110101 01001110 110101 01111110 00101111 10111110 1100111 110010100 110101 1101100 1011111 001110010 0100101 01111110 001001011 1111010010 1101101 11111110 10100011 11010100 1101111 11001010 1001001 101110011 1111001 110011010 10110111 00111011 0011101 11101110 0100111 101101010 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, came are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, it, 'i, to, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Cap And Bells;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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