This is an analysis of the poem Thoughts In A Garden that begins with:
HOW vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccda eeffggcc ffhhcccc iiddggcc ccffjjdd ddccaacc iiccaaii iiiieeffXggffbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010111 11100101 10110111 11110101 11001111 110101111 01010001 11011111 11001101 01011111 01010001 11010101 10010101 01000111 00010101 11111101 110010101 11010111 10111101 10011111 11110001 1110001111 11111101 11111101 11010101 01110101 10010111 01010101 10111101 11010101 11011101 11010011 11010111 01010001 01111111 010011001 00110111 100110111 010101111 11010101 01000100 01110111 11010101 10010101 11011101 010101111 00110011 11010101 11111101 10010101 11000111 11010111 11110101 11011101 100101001 11110101 11110101 10011111 11011101 11010101 01010101 11000101 01010101 11010101 010110101 10010101 110101011 1101101001 01011111 111111010 010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as are repeated.
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