Poem Analysis of Going Out To The Garden by Alice Walker for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Going Out To The Garden that begins with:

Going out to the garden
this morning...

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Rhyme scheme: abccdeXfghabi ihicXhX ecadjckaXc gkfjdccdX i eibjac ddXhh iXacdiefjhhf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,7,10,9,1,6,5,12,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1010010 010 011 11101 0110010 010 1010 11010 1 10101 10 10 001 1011 110 101 1111 10010 11 10 01010 001 101 1101 101 11100 010 010 0101 0101 11 110 0010 1101 001 01 01 1 1011 110 110 1 010 1 001 101 0001 001 0101 01 00101 110 01101 11 0010 001 111010 010010 010 1 11011100 110 010
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
Average number of words per stanza: 22
Amount of lines: 63
Average number of symbols per line: 13 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; heat, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, squirt, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heat is repeated).

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Going Out To The Garden by Alice Walker: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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