This is an analysis of the poem To James Whitcomb Riley that begins with:
On his "Book of Joyous Children"
Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab caca dddd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010100 10010011010 101001011 101110010 1001001011 11111110 101101010 1001010010 101101110 101001010 1110010010 101001110 111101010 0001011111 10100101 101011011 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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