This is an analysis of the poem The Old Garden that begins with:
I.
I stood in an ancient garden...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdc defe Xgdg chfh eiXi Xhdh dhgh jXck X ilil bede Xmdm nehe icbX haha moho ncXc X ecnc hbjb ecec ebhb eodo X hjkj imem iXiX hmim eeie a coao ibib ieke icdc a kaaa iliL Xoio kbdX kebe X kbXb Xmem ichcXklkL
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011010 011101 10011110 01001001 0101010 1111011 101010111 0101001 101011010 1100101 01011110 01011011 0110111 01100101 101010011 1111001 010010010 1100101 11111110 011101 0101010 0111001 110011010 111101 1010010010 1111001 1010110110 111100 011110010 0111011 1011110010 1100110 1 11001010 1001001 0111010 10111001 1101110 10100111 1001011 1100101 0100101100 101111 101011010 1100111 111010010 100101 001011110 0111101 01001010 0111101 01111111 11010110 11110110 10101101 11110110 10101001 111101011 00111001 001001010 11000111 11101010 111011 1101101 1101101 1 110010011 0010101 10111010 1111101 01011110 110111 110010111 01101011 011010011 0010111 10100110 1110101 1110011 011111 01011110 0100101 1110011 0100101 101111010 1110101 1 11111011 11001111 1001010 0111001 00101010 1010101 11001011 110101 11111100 111101 1010011010 0100101 0111110 1100101 01110010 111001 11111011 10101101 1101110 11001101 1 0101010 0010111 11101111 101001 101111010 1101001 01111010 111101 11111110 00101111 01010110 0100101 01011010 011101 101110010 0101001 1 111011010 11111001 11101011 111111 001011010 101101 1011010110 010001 1111010 1101011 101010110 0100111 01010010 010101 011011011 010010 101101010 010111 0110010010 1111111 1 10111010 1110101 011010110 0010011 10111010 1100001 101001110 110101 11001010 1111101 011010010 1110101 101001010 10100101 0111010 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 46
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 163
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, growing, i, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, in, thin, she are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases i, growing connect the lines.
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- summary of The Old Garden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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