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

The crow that flew over us and sank-
in the confusion of a vagabond cloud;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdef GHif GHhi bhejj Hgaee Hggg bgk hceehgX Gce GHgel GhX Haabb eg gXcc KKmmgc ad gjl K X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,5,5,4,3,7,3,5,3,5,2,4,6,2,3,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111 00010001001 011101 001001 10110 01011 001 10101 101011111 110011001 11010 10101 101011111 1101001001 11010 101001 1010011111 01011 10110 1110 1111 001010110011 001100010111 000111001 10101011 1111 00010100011 0010110101 1010100101101 1 00010101 0101011001 111 00100101 001010010 1010101 10010101 111010 11101 10101 10101111 000101010 10101 101011111 0010101 1001001 01 10101 1101011111 011010100010000100 1111 0010101010001 00011100101 000101100011 00011101011 000110100101 00101001 1000111 10101 1011 100101 1001 1001 1111 111 00100110 10011101 0101 11001110 11 001001110 11011 1001 01010100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, everybody, knows, it, about are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, everybody, in, it, come are repeated.

    The author used the same words everybody, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines turf, name are repeated).

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