This is an analysis of the poem The Garden Of Dreams that begins with:

Not while I live may I forget
That garden which my spirit trod!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abab XcXc dede fcfc gcgc XhXh ijijXAiai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 11011101 11010111 110011 11110110 110111110 10010011 1101010 110001001 01100101 01000111 110101 11011001 01101111 01110101 0101001 10110111 11111101 10010001 011101 10010100 11111111 010100100 100111 10111111 11011101 10110111 010101 11111101 11001111 11010101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, no, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Garden Of Dreams;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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