This is an analysis of the poem A Forsaken Garden that begins with:

IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXaca dadaXbXb aeaedddd fbfbghgh Xicihjhj XbgXXaaa gcgcekek cbcbglgl gagXhbhb mnmngaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010111110 10111011011 1101111110 010010101 01001011100 0111001001 1011110010010 111 0111001110 0011100111 00111101010 1011110111 1110111110 1101100111 11111101110 111 0111001110 111011101 00111100110 01101111101 0111101010 011111101 0111001110 101 1010001001111 101001101111 0010011010011 111101001001 10011110110 110100111 1001101110 111 0111101100 111100101 1001110110 0011111011 11110011110 1001011001 1111001010 001 1100111110100 01101010010001 10110011011010 11111011110 101111011100 111001011001 0011110011110 111 11111111110 10100101111 11101101110 1011111101 10111101010 1111011101 11101101010 101 1111110110 11001101101 10100111010 00111001000 1011110010010 0010101011111 1111111010110 111 1111101110 111111111 001111111110 11111001011 1111001110 1011011110 10111011110 101 10111101110 1101110111 101001001110 011100111 11001011110 1110110111 10111101110 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • 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; of, that, not, and, rose, as, till, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, not, here, till are repeated.

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

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