This is an analysis of the poem My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden that begins with:
My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,
Into thy garden; thine be happy hours... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXabbabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110110111 00110101010 01110111010 0101010101 1001010111 100110001010 11010111110 0111110111 1111111111 01001101110 1111001101 1111111111 10010111010 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; my, birds are repeated.
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