This is an analysis of the poem Tea In The Garden that begins with:

I will not go to tea with you, Mrs Arden,
Yourself, your house, your tea,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcccbdbbbadb effefggcchhffeeXaahha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101011010 101111 11 11010001 11 1111 1011 101 10 110000 01 011 0010 1111010 101 1011010 100001 0111 1101010 1011010101 000101 1001011101 110011 1111 11010 01010 01 1101 1100010101 011111 10 1111010 1111010 0111110 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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