This is an analysis of the poem A Man And A Fawn Play Together In A Garden… that begins with:

A man and a fawn play together in a garden…
I say to my friend: 'Where did this little one ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdeXXXXXXdXbecXXXXebXXXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110110100010 11011100101 10111110011 0101110101100 1010010011110 01011101010111 111001101010 11011010111110 1101111010100 0101101010101 1111101011111 1011011110100 11010110110 11111100011011 0110011101101 101110011011 101001001 110010110101 101111001000101 10100111101110 0110011101111 00101001110011001 00111101001 111111111011 0111011111000 10010011111 011001 0110110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1417
  • Average number of words per stanza: 276
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, i, my, and, he, in are repeated.

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

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