This is an analysis of the poem The Botanic Garden (Part Viii) that begins with:

THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS
CANTO IV.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X Xbccddeeffbbbbggbbbbhhiibbbb bXbddjjeebbkkbbddff jjjbbbbddffkkXlbbXbiijjiXff cffeebb d hhbb X ffhh X eedd X fffX mmdd dbbnnbbnXbbXbffbbbbbb obbhhppbbhhXbffbbb abeeooooeekkhhXfhhddbbffjjffeebbddbbqqllhhbbccffbbeeffbbbbjbnnbbXbffjjbbXbf ifeekkaabbbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,28,19,27,7,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,21,18,75,122,65,6,106,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001 101 1011010110 1001110101 101011100101 1101010101 0101010101 10110001001 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 11001010101 11010001010 10111101010 11110100101 1111010101 10010101010 11010101010 1101010111 0111011001 10011101001 10011110101 1011010111 11010110101 11110101001 101011010101 1111010101 11011111001 11010100101 1111110101 01 011100101 1101000101 10111100101 11010110011 1111010101 1011110101 11010100101 10010010101 0101010101 10111101001 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 11110100101 1011110101 11001010101 011010101 0111010101 1 101010101 01001010101 100110010101 1111010101 1101110101 11011010010 1100110101 110010100001 11110100111 1101000101 10110010101 01001111001 1101010101 1011011101 1111010101 11010110101 1101110110 1001010101 1101010101 100110110011 1101010101 0110011101 11010011101 11110101010 11010010101 1101011001 1 101011001 1101010101 1011011101 1101001101 1101110101 01100011010 1 11011101 101110001 11010101 10110101 1 11110101 110111001 11110111 11110101 1 11011101 11010101 11110111 01010001 1 10111111 11010011 11011101 11010001 010010010101 0101010101 110010100111 1101010001 1 101010101 1101010101 1111010111 11110101001 0101011101 01010101001 10101111101 0101010101 01110101010 010100110010 01010101010 1101110101 1111000101 01011000001 10010100101 1101010101 1101010111 1011010101 1001010111 1101010101 1 101010111 0110010101 0111011001 1011110101 1101111001 11010100101 101010010101 0101010101 11010101001 0101010101 10110101010 11010101001 1101010101 1101011101 1011011001 1101010101 101011111001 1 101010101 10010101001 11001010101 1011100101 11010011001 1011010101 1101010101 01011111101 0101010101 1101010101 10111101001 1011010101 0101111101 1011110110 0101010101 1111000101 01010010111 1101100101 0101010101 11010001001 1101110001 1001010111 1011000101 11001001001 1011110101 011110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010001 1111010101 11010101001 1011011111 1101010101 10110011010 11010101010 1111010111 1010010101 11110010101 11011010101 10110101001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 110110100101 111101001001 01110100111 0101110101 10110110101 0101010101 0101001101 10101110101 1011010101 11001000101 10011010101 10001000101 0101000101 01001010 10 1 1011000101 1011010101 111101010001 1101010101 11010101110 10010010101 010010100101 0101010101 1101011101 0100011001 01001110111 1101010101 111101001110 11010101001 11010100101 1 101110101 11111101001 11010011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 1111111101 110001010101 1101000101 1011011101 101001100101 11110010101 01010011110 10111101010 1101110101 1101110001 1111010101 0101111111 1 1 11010101 1101110111 1011010101 1101010001 010100101001 1011100101 1001010101 1101010101 10100101101 0101010101 1001011101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010001 11110100101 1101110110 11011101001 01001110101 1011011101 101111010010 1001110101 11001010101 1011000101 1101100001 11010100101 11110011101 1011110101 1101010001 01001010101 01010010101 1101010101 1111000101 1111110101 11111100101 11111100111 1111110001 1111110101 01110111010 1111010111 1101010001 10010010101 1111010001 1110010101 10110110101 0100101101 1101000101 10110101100 10110101001 11001011001 1011010101 01001010101 110101110101 01111100101 11011000101 1101010101 10111101001 11111001001 1101010101 11110110011 10110010001 0101010101 1101000101 10011010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010111 1101110101 10010010101 11010101001 11110101001 1101010111 101110101 110101000010 0111000101 1101000101 0101110101 1001010001 11010001010 110010101010 10001011101 1101000101 11110101001 1011110101 1101010101 1101011001 11010101100 110101011 11001011101 110100100101 0101010101 1111000101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010101 101010101010 11011100101 1101101111 1101010101 011000101100 1 101011001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010010101 10110100101 10011011001 1011010101 1101010101 11001111101 0101010101 10011100101 11001010101 1101010111 11011001001 1011011101 1111010101 1100101000001 1011010101 1011010101 101101000101 1111100101 1111100101 1101010101 1011010101 101011101010 0101010101 1011110001 11111100101 1101010 1 110 1101111101 010110101 0101010101 1101110001 1101010111 0101111111 1011110101 1101010101 0101110101 11010011101 1111111111 1011110101 0101110101 1111010101 0101010111 1101010001 11001010101 1011010101 11011101101 1101110101 11010100101 1011010101 01100100101 1111000101 1001010111 01010100101 1011010101 1101010001 10110111001 1001011001 11001011001 1011011001 1 1001010101 1101010110 01010101001 110011101 01 1100100101 1101010101 01001010101 01110010101 1101011111 11010100101 1111010101 1111110101 1011011101 10001110101 1101001001 00110001001 01010010101 1111010101 1011000111 10001010101 10010111100 1011110101 1101001111 0101111001 10110101100 0111010101 01010101001 1011110101 11011100101 1101000 10 1 1010111101 1001010101 11001010001 1101011101 1101001101 10010100101 11001010101 0101110110 10010100101 1111010001 10111101001 11010100101 1011000101 1011110101 0101010111 11010000 10 1 1101010101 1111110101 11111100111 1011010101 010011100101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110001 01010101110 1101010101 1101011101 11001010001 1101010101 11011101001 1011110101 1101010101 10011010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1011010101 1101000101 0 10 1010 10 1 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11110010101 1011110101 1111010101 01001000101 1101001101 1011111001 1101010101 11010010101 0101011101 11010010001 1111000101 1101110001 11001010111 1011111101 11010100101 01010111001 01010101001 01110011001 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 110010010101 10011011001 11010000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 524
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, with, its, as, i, my, his, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word head at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Botanic Garden (Part Viii);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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