This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener's Boy that begins with:
ALL day I have fed on lilied thoughts of her,'
The gardener's boy sang in Gethsemane.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa bXbXcc dXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111110101 0100110100 10101010101 1011001101 101111011101 0101101101 11101010111 1011011101 11011111111 11111111010 1011110100 1111011100 1111111111 1001010100 1101111111 1101011100 01001110111 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, one are repeated.
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