This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Garden that begins with:
Several weeks ago I discovered a photograph of my mother
sitting in the sun, her face flushed as with achievement or triumph....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde efgh gXicc dXe fi dX X efXiicX jaei jigf bacX hX X chk cb Xjl Xf mg ll lci eX fX X Xca ie dfc gXdX dci fk cgg aXme
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,3,2,2,1,7,4,4,4,2,1,3,2,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,1,3,2,3,4,3,2,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101101001010110 1000101110010110 0111001 0101011111010 11100101101 110101101 0111010101010010 10010101110011 001110100110011100 0111000101110110 011101011111 1001010 1100110111 1000110010 0110011010 001011011000 101100 001111010 101011010010 10011100110 01011001011010 1 111010110101 111010111110 010100110101 1010110 1010001001011110 01001011010 101010011001101 011101111101 11010010 1101110111 100111110 110101 0110100010 111001011101 1001100 1010101 110011010100010 00101011 11110100000110110000 10010101110 1001111111000 1 1100100 1110010010 1011 11000 11111001 10001000 010010 10010 0101 11010 10010001 01001 1111111111 01111 110001 111010001 1001010 110101 010100 11000110 11101010 1 10010100010100 0111010 1111101100101110 01010001010 111001010 10101100 11011 111010101001 0111111 1111011011 01111001101 1111011 0101110 01010 101110 1001001 1001001 111011110111 1011011010 0011010101 0111110100101110 11110101 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words how, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines change is repeated).
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