This is an analysis of the poem A Garden, Written After The Civil Wars that begins with:

SEE how the flowers, as at parade,
Under their colours stand display'd: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaXddaacXbbaaddeebbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101101 10110101 11000101 10010111 11010001 01110101 11100111 101101010 101100101 11110001 11111011 11111101 11111101 010001100 11010011 11010101 10010101 01001101 11010011 01110111 01011101 1101001 110101110 110100010 11010111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 926
  • Average number of words per stanza: 163
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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