This is an analysis of the poem Patterns that begins with:
I walk down the garden-paths,
And all the daffodils ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaBbcbadbbeabafddbdXaaXgg Xbahbbbicjcjbdd ajjkaaajdffdXXbbdd ggdklXXehbgeXbadbbmbbeB dgbgXegiXdXlBaBammBbddhhdacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,15,18,23,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 110101 11010111 111010101 0111001 0110111001 11101 1011101 0101 1101010 101 1011101 1010101 0010 10101010 1010111001 1010101011 10100101 111101001 00111110 1010101 010111 10001 111 111 10110010 111101101110 10100100 001010 110101 010101 1011101 0010001010001010 0100010101 11110101010 1110101 10100010 1010001 1010 10100011001 111010100010101 101110101101 110011101110101 1111010 0101110 1110110001110 10101 111 011001010101 01110111101010 1111001 10100010111011 11 1010101 00110011010 101000100 10110010101 1110101 0010001 1011101 10101010 0110 0010111 01101010101000 1 10010100111111 101011100 11100011011 0101011 100101001110 100111 11010011010 11100 11100010 1110101 0110101 01110101110001 11 11011 1100010 1010011 11111 111 0011110110 001110101 1111010 1111111 11101110 10101 1101 1111010 1110101011110 1101 0101010111 111 010101 0111001 011101 011010101010101 111 111 011 10001 111 101001100010001 1110111 101111101 10001010 0010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, up, in, he are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ground is repeated).
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