This is an analysis of the poem The Touchstone that begins with:
There was a garden, very strange and fair
With all the roses summer never brings.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacc deedaa fbXXff gffghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 0101010101 01010001001 10011110111 1011010111 1111110111 1101111111 1011011101 1001100101 1101010101 1101011111 1101111101 1011111111 110001111 0101011000 0011011010 1111111101 1111110101 011010011 0101110101 1011111111 1111111011 1111110011 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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, my, it, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of The Touchstone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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