This is an analysis of the poem In A Monastery Garden that begins with:
OVER the long salt ridges
And the gold sea-poppies between, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedeXfaf dgdgahah ibibXhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110 10111001 110011010 0110101 111010110 10110111 1001110 1101001 1001110 10111 101001010 10100101 100111110 1011101 10010010 1101101 11110010 1101001 1001010 111001 10111110 10111001 101110010 1100101 1101110 0100111 01011010 10111001 11101110 1011101 1001110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; when, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word god at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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