This is an analysis of the poem Garden Magic that begins with:

WITHIN my stone-walled garden
(I see her standing now,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbaXaecafacdedXgegdbebhfXfhcXcehdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 110101 1000011 010101 1101110 111111 0110011 011101 1101110 1101101 1111010 010000 1101110 110101 1101010 011101 1101110 010101 01010010 110101 1101010 011101 0111010 010111 1101110 010101 1111010 010101 1101110 011101 1000010 110001 1001010 111101 1101011 011101 1001010 110101 0100110 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1089
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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