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

The pink rose drops its petals on
The moonlit lawn, the moonlit lawn;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdd XceeddX cXffggg ddaahhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101 01110111 01111101 110101 1110 1110 11111001 0100110010 01010101 01110101 0101001 1101 1101 111111000 01110101 11011101 01010001 100101 1101 1111 11011101 01010101 11011101 01111101 011111 1101 0100 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jasmine is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of In A Garden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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