This is an analysis of the poem The Deserted Garden that begins with:

I know a village in a far-off land
Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc adadadee fbfbfbaa ccccccbb eXegegff aeaeaXcc heheheaa agagagii bhbhbhcc ejejejkc ljljljee gcXkgkii ecXcekaa adadadii kjkXkjaa ckccckkk mkmkmcgX lililibb nbnbnbhh iXiaiaaa fgfgfgcc abababgX imimimck bjbjbjii eeXeeebb cjcjcjaa aXaaaacc akakacll iai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000111 1001010101 0101011101 11110110101 0111110101 1101011101 1101110001 101111010101 1011110101 1101010101 1001000101 01010110101 1111110011 0101110011 11000101001 110111110111 1111010111 0100010111 1111010101 1101010101 11010001101 1111100101 1101001101 0110011101001 1101010111 1001010001 0101010101 1101010111 1101000111 1100010111 1101010101 110101010101 011101001001 01110100100 0101110111 11011100101 1101010101 1011010101 1111100101 1101101010101 1100111111 1101011101 1101010011 1111110101 1101011101 11001110100 0101110101 101011010011 1111000011 0111000101 1101011111 1001010101 1101110101 0101110111 1101010101 100101001101 11001110111 1001010101 1101010101 10110100111 1101110101 1001010101 1101110001 011011000101 10011010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010101 11110011011 1011111011101 1101010111 1101010011 0111110111 1111111111 1101010111 0101010101 1111010011 111101010101 11101010001 11001101101 1111010001 1101110111 11110101101 1010000101 1101000101 100101000101 1111001111 1101111101 11010010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101110101 11010101011 1101000000101 1100110101 0100110111 111100101010 0011101101 1101110101 1101010101 1011110101 110101010101 11110001001 0111010101 1111100101 1010011101 1011110101 110100100111 1111000101 1101001110111 1011010101 1011000101 1011010101 0111110110 0101110111 100111100101 1111110111 101111110101 1110010101 10010011001 0110001111 1101010101 1101011101 1001001101 0101010101 11010010100101 1111110101 110101000100 110101100101 1101010111 010011010100 11010010100 1111010011 110101010100 1111110101 1001010111 1101011101 0101010101 010101101 1101010101 1100110101 0100111001111 11010000110 01110010101 10011010010 1001010101 10110001010 01010101001 1101000101 0100111001101 1101100101 10110111000 11110010111 1101001101 1011010101 0101010101 1001010101 110101001101 1111010101 1101011101 1001011101 1011010111 10011100101 01010101001 11001101010 10010111001110 1101110101 0101010101 1011111101 1101110111 0101010101 1101110101 1001111111 011101111000 1011000101 1111100111 10101010101 10001100101 1111010101 1011011001 0101111101 010100011001 11001101001 01010010101 1111000111 11110010101 111010001 1111010001 1001110101 001111011001 1111110111 11110111001 1011110010 01110011101 1001010101 1111010111 0101011101 100101110101 1111010101 100100001001 111101101 1001100101 11010101001 1011010111 1101110111 100101001111 11110010101 11100111000 1001011101 1001011101 1101010101 1011000101 1101010011 1101111100001 1101010101 00110010101 1101100101 011001101 0101000101 1111111011 1101011111 110001110101 1101010101 10011010101 1101010101 100011111001 1011011101 1101000101 11010101011 1100011110101 11010111100 1001110001 1011111101 11110001010 110100100101 10011101110 0111110011 11101000101 11110000101 10010011011 1111010001 010110100 0111110111 1111110101 1001110101 011101110111 1111010111 11011011001 1001010100 0111010111 1101010100 1100010100 1011110101 1101010110101 1001010111 01010010101 10001010101 0101010111 1011011001 0101100101 1101101101 0100100100101 10110101001 11001110100 1101010111 1001010111 1100110101 1011011101 1111010111 110001110101 1111011101 0111001101 11011100111 0011010101 11010100101 1101010111 1101000101 110100110001 1111110111 0111010101 010110101 11011001010 1011010111 0101010101 1111010001 1100101111111 0101010101 0101010101 1011110101 1001010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111001111 110000101101 1111100101 10010101001 0101010011 0100000111 11111011001 1101111101 1001010101 100111010111 1111110101 101101011001 1101001100 1111010011 1001010100 1101010101 11011100110 1111011100010 01010110011 1101111101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1011011001 1011110101 011101111000 11010101001 01111101011 11010011111 1100010011 1101011111 01001100001 11010011011 010101010101 1101110100 1111110111 1111010100 1111011001 0111010101 01010101001 1011011111 010001110101 1011110101 1001110101 1111110101 1101111111 1101010001 1101010101 1101001111 111111110111 0100110111 1001010101 0101011101 0111110101 0101001111 0101110101 1111010001 110101010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 11011010001 0101010011 1011111101 1111010001 111111110101 1011010100 1011010101 11010100100 01010011000 1011110111 11110101101 1111110101 110011110111 1101010001 1011100101 1011010101 11111001001 0111010101 10001010100 1101000111 110001100001 1111010101 11111101001 110101001011 1101010001 1111011101 01001010101 1101111111 110001010001 1011111101 11010111010 1111101101 1101110111 1011000101 01011100111 0101011101 1101000111 1011110001 1111100101 1001010101 11010101001 0011111000 10111101001 10110010111 101101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 400
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, they, of, that, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Deserted Garden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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