This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Garden that begins with:

There was a fair green garden sloping
From the south-east side of the mountain-ledge;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeXefgfgahahhihiXjXjkekXkdkdkikiaXaXhihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 0011100101 101001001110 110100111 0101101010 11100101 10111101010 010110101 1101111110 011101101 11011101010 110100101 11001001010 110100101 10100111010 011101101 1110101110 010101101 11001101110 1011100111 1101001010 10100111001 1111110010 101100101 1111001011 110011101 10111111010 111111111 1101101010 11110101 1111001110 1111101110 1110111110 010111101 10111101010 11100101101 11111101010 111101101 10111001110 111100111 1111101110 011101101 1110101010 0100100011 11101101110 101110101 111111001110 1011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2065
  • Average number of words per stanza: 405
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; and, to, of, i are repeated.

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  • summary of The Lost Garden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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