This is an analysis of the poem A Garden Of Girls that begins with:

KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose,
Jane is like a gillyflower smart; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100100101 101010001 1101010010111 1111010101 1001011111 1111111111111 10001100110111 1101010111101 100010110111 101010101 1010100110101 1101010001 10010111110 10111011111010 1011101110101 1101010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; like, and, one, for are repeated.

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