This is an analysis of the poem No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew that begins with:

No rose that in a garden ever grew,
In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaXcXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1110010101 0101010101 1101010001 1101010111 0101010101 1101010111 01100011000 1011010001 111110101110 1001010111 1001010110 1111111111 0100110011 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, love, with are repeated.

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

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  • summary of No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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