This is an analysis of the poem Elegy In A Botanic Gardens that begins with:

THE smell of birds' nests faintly burning
Is autumn. In the autumn I came ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXcXXXdbXXaXdeXfXefcXAdA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010111010 010001011 10111110 00111010101 110100010100 1100110101 11010100011 1111001001 11111100 1011010101 1101100101 110101000 0101011001 1110000101 10010001011 111111001101 01000011 01000101001 10010001011 1011110111 0111010101 1011111101 1100011001 11010101 01000100 01010010100 01000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1079
  • Average number of words per stanza: 179
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.

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