This is an analysis of the poem Untitled: The Stillness Of The Deceased Loves The Old Garden, that begins with:

The stillness of the deceased loves the old garden,
The madwoman who dwelled in blue rooms,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b X a X X X b X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010000110110 010011011 0010011010010 111010010010 01000110100111 11110110010 010101001010 1010 0111001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
  • Average number of words per stanza: 8
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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