This is an analysis of the poem The One Whose Reproach I Cannot Evade that begins with:

She sits in her glass garden
and awaits the guests - ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccX decX dcXca XcaabXX eXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,7,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110 10101 010001101 0110100 01000010001 110011 011111010 101 1001001 1001101001 011011 0111111 01110111 1101 111010 01100101 11100010 010111 10100111 010010010 1110010 11111010 111010 01010111 110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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  • summary of The One Whose Reproach I Cannot Evade;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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