Poem Analysis of In Any Garden by Dora Sigerson Shorter for close reading

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

Down his long garden he did slowly go,
For fairer sight did each new path disclose;...

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Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecXfcfccXcXghgh egXgXieiXeXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1011010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1111111101 0101100111 1101010101 0101110101 01010101101 11010101101 11110111100 11110101101 1101011101 1101000101 1111100101 11010100101 1111010101 0101000101 11110011011 100111011100 1111010101 1101101111 11011100010 10010100101 010010010101 0101110101 1111111111 0111110101 1101111100 1111010111 1101110111 0110011001 1101110011 1111011101 0101010011 0111011111
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
Average number of words per stanza: 155
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
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 words now, he, and are repeated.

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