This is an analysis of the poem The Lonely Garden that begins with:
I WONDER what the trees will say,
The trees that used to share his play,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaA aaeedffcdcaA ccggaahhccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01110101 11110101 11010001 11110101 11001111 011101001 01010111 1100011111 110101001 11011101 11111101 11010101 110101001 01010101 110011011 110011011 101011111 101111111 11010101 11010111 11010111 11110111 11111101 11010101 01010101 11011001 01000111 110011101 10011111 110010111 010001101 11010111 11011101 10100111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an' is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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