This is an analysis of the poem The Linden Avenue that begins with:

A house of unimagined beauty
Is set in parkland, cool and dark;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc eded eafa bfXf bgXg XadaXegfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101010 01011111 101111110 11110101 101111010 01010101 010101010 01110001 110111010 01010001 100101110 01010101 010111011 11110101 1111000010 01010001 110101010 01010101 110101111 11010001 010001010 11010101 100100010 11011101 010101101 01110111 010101010 11010001 0101100010 11010111 111111110 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.

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  • summary of The Linden Avenue;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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