This is an analysis of the poem Conrad Siever that begins with:

Not in that wasted garden
Where bodies are drawn into grass...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXaccbdcbbdXdab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 11011001 1111100101 1111 11010101 1111 110111 0101000101 11100101 111111 011 00110 1100100101 010010111001 000110001001 100010101 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; that, and, of, into are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

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  • summary of Conrad Siever;
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