This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Gardeners that begins with:
We were storemen, clerks and packers on
an ammunition dump ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcdc efafgheh iajaXgcg kfXfkklX dmXmencn ocockklk jkXkecdc dfoXXkbk jcbcgnpn dkdkdkck nimiXqdq XkdXdapa jkXkiXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011101 110101 10101000101 1101 1011111011 10001 11111101 010101 111011100010 001 0111101010 10001 111010100010 101 101000101010 101 10111010101 1111 11101011010 11101 10111111101 0101 1010101010100 101 1011111 11110101 1111011001 1101 101011111 110101 11100010101 1110 11111010101 0101 101011101010 101 1111101010 1001 1010101011 10101 111010101010 101 1010111110 10101 10100011011101 01 10101110101 1101 0010101010 11111 1100010110100 111 011011101010 101 101011101 010001 1111111011 0101 101010101110 101 1110101110 10100 111010111 010101 1111101010 101101 01011111 010101 111010101 111101 1010101010 10001 11101010001 1001 101011101 010111 1010101011 010101 010001010100 01 10101111 1011101 111011101 010001 111010101110 111 11101010101 10101 11101010111 1011 101010101011 1001 1010101011 10111 1011101111 10101 11101011110 10001 1011101010 11111 1110011011 10111 1100111101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The author used the same words we, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Happy Gardeners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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