This is an analysis of the poem The Garden that begins with:
There's an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams,
Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccXdddccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101110101 101010111110101 101010101010001 1010011101010101 111011101110101 101010101010111 0010101101010111 101010111010001 1010101000101100 10100001101010001 111111101010101 101111100111101 101100100011011 111010111111101 1010101011010101 1110111001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1025
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of The Garden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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