This is an analysis of the poem The Lawn that begins with:
My garden has a lawn -
Green and withdrawn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddeeXXbfXXfXggbbfbbfccahhbbhiaiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,35,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1101 1011 0101 111101 110100 1101 01 01 111111 0100101 11 11100 010111010 1101011101 101 1101010 110100010010 101 0101000010010 11110110010 1110100110 011 11010011 100111000100111 1101010110001 1101 1101001 111 111 11 1111010101 1111 101001011 10100 11 110101 1001 11 11 10
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Lawn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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