This is an analysis of the poem Gilbert that begins with:

I. THE GARDEN.
ABOVE the city hung the moon,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abcbcada cbebaXfb aagahaba ijcjhfef klhlhchc hdjdaXeX dacamcdc ebebcebe bbcbaaXa jnXnbkok iphpjqcq nacahara hoboboco iblXqkck qacarcjc XahadpdX r pcpcqbqb jcqceaea mpmpjpqp eeeebXbb lhlhcbcb hdhdhqhj lelepbpb cjcqeaea gbgbshsh mnmnchcX lclcchch hghglal
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1010 01010101 1100101 110110101 010101 11010001 011101 110010101 110111 01000101 1111001 11010101 010101 11111101 1111100 11001101 111011 11010101 0111010 11010101 0111010 01010101 1101010 11010111 0101010 10110101 11010110 11000101 1111110 01010001 1101110 11010101 1001010 11010101 111111 11010101 110101 11110101 100111 11110011 0101001 11010101 110001 11111100 110101 110101001 0101110 11111101 111000 10110001 110001 01000101 110101 111111111 110011 01110101 010111 11010101 001101 011100100 111101 11011101 111101 01010011 110101 11010101 1100101 01010101 010001 11111011 111101 11111100 100101 01010100 0101111 11011100 1100101 11010101 110101 11011101 0111001 11011101 110001 11111100 111101 11010100 111101 11010101 111101 10111101 0111001 01010001 001101 11010001 1111001 0111001010 0111111 11101111 111101 111111101 110101 110101001 111101 11110101 010101 11110101 011101 101111101 0111000 11010101 110111 11001001 010101 11010101 010101 01011101 111101 11110010 110111 110101010 010101 010111010 1100111 010110010 011101 11010101 010111 11110101 1111010 1010 10010101 010111 01010111 010101 11010101 1101001 110100101 010101 10111000 110101 110011101 101111 010011011 011101 11010101 100101 11010101 100101 11110101 111101 01010100 110001 01011101 110101 010110101 110101 11011101 110101 01010111 0101100 01010101 1101110 01000101 010100 11110101 110111 01010101 010101 11010101 0100111 01010101 010101 11010101 100101 11110001 011101 11111101 111100 01110011 0111010 11111101 010101 11010101 010101 01011101 111101 11010101 010100 010111001 110101 01010101 111101 010101011 010111 00111011 110101 11010111 110101 011101001 011111 100111101 001101 01010101 010101 11101011 101101 11011101 011101 11111101 0101100 11011101 0111110 11001111 1101110 01110101 011111 01011101 110101 11010101 010101 01010101 111111 11010101 1101010 11010101 10001010 100101010 1101101 110111010 100101 11010111 0101010 110101001 0111010 110101001 1001010 01010111 0101010 11010101 0101010 10010001 0101010 010100001 1011010 010010101 1101100 01110101 1101100 01011101 0101010 11000101 0101110 110010101 100000110 01010101 1101011 01110101 1111011 11010111 1011110 11111101 1101010 01010001 1101010 11111101 01001110 11010101 0101010 11110101 1101110 10010101 0101010 11110101 01110100 11110001 11001010 11100101 1011010 01011101 0101010 11010101 1111010 111100101 110101 11010101 110101 01010101 111101 110101101 110101 01000111 011101 11010101 110001 110010101 010101 11011001 110101 10111001 111101 11010111 010101 11110101 110101 01010111 011101 10110001 111101 11010101 011101 111111001 101111 111101001 010101 110111101 110011 101000101 110111 01110111 111101 11110101 1001111 101011101 100101 11011111 110101 11010101 111101 11011111 0101010 10101 01010101 111101 101001101 011101 10110101 111111 010011101 011111 11110101 110101 11010101 100101 01011100 011101 10010011 010111 01111101 010101 11010101 100101 01010101 010111 010100101 010110 11011101 010111 010111001 010101 01010101 100101 11000101 011101 01110101 010001 11010110 010101 11000101 110101 010011101 010101 11100101 110101 11000111 111101 11111101 010111 11010111 110101 10110111 0110011 11011100 010101 11010111 011111 11010101 010101 11010111 011101 11011101 110111 11110101 1011101 1010100110 0111001 10100101 101101 11111101 101111 10010001 1111011 011101101 111101 01010111 0100111 011100111 111101 11110101 011101 11011101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 413
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, to, i, her, no, she, their, his, its, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, her, i, some, she, no, he, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words there, gilbert, ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.

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