This is an analysis of the poem A Child In The Garden that begins with:

When to the garden of untroubled thought
I came of late, and saw the open door,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabbX cbcbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001000101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010110 11001000101 0111011101 1101110101 1101011110 1101011101 0101101111 1101011101 0111110111 10101110101010 101010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.

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