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

IT is full summer now, the heart of June,
Not yet the sun-burnt reapers are a-stir... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb cacadd eXefgg XgXgee Xabahh Xfeacc aiaiaa Xjgjkk aXagll gmXmee nafaeme jnjnee mamafn baXajj oeoeXg cXcagg nifpaa cXcbpi XjejcX bkbkaa jnjnff jXjfaa kfknmm Xjnjcc XqaqXd cXcXjj eeeegg ececbb ababee jqjqbb aeaeaa aeaeXn cjcjjj qcqckk qkqkfX rgrgbb aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0011010101 1101110101 0101011111 1101010100 0101010101 11010101011111 1101110101 11100011101 0101010011 01001010010 11011100100 01000101111100 0101110001 1101010100 10010011101 011100011001 1011011001 11011101100001 110101100 11000100101 1111010100 0101000101 1001010111 11111101011101 11010110100 10101010101 0111010101 1011001101 1101010001 11110111010111 1101011100 0101011101 0101001101 110100101 1111110101 01011101010101 1101010101 0101000101 0101011101 1101110101 111100101101 11010101010101 0101011000 1101010111 1011011100 11010010001 0101010101 110101111111011 1011110101 0101010100 1101111101 1101001101 110100111 010101111111101 1101010010 11011000101 1110110100 11110101001 100111111 001101110010101 1101010100 01110010111 1101010101 0101101111 0011111101 10011101110100 1 1101001111 1110110100 1111010111 1101110100 1101010101 11010111111101 11010111001 1101110111 1011010101 0111110101 1111011101 01010100110100 1101110101 11010001001 1101010010 0101111101 1011011111 110101011101001 1101110010 1001110111 1101010100 1001011001 11111101000 11110111000101 11111011101 1100101100 1100011101 1001010101 1001010101 01110111010001 1011111100 1101011101 10111011 1111010101 11001110101 11001001111001001 1001010101 1111110100 11110111001 0101010100 1101010101 11010101011101 1111111100 1101110111 1111111101 1011010101 1011111101 01111100111000 1110011001 0101100111 1111010101 1101010101 1011011101 11010101010101 1101011111 1101100100 0111010101 0101011100 110101111 0101000011101 1111010111 1101010100 1111001001 1111011101 1001010101 11011101111101 11110011101 0101010111 10110011101 0111010100 1100110011 01010111111101 1110011100 1111010101 0100110100 100110101 1101000101 11010111010101 1111010100 110100100 1101010111 11100010101 1111110100 10111111010100 1001010011 0011001010 0111010101 11000010100 01010011101 11001111011101 1011110101 1100010101 0111011101 0101010101 10011100101 11110101110101 1101100111 1011001101 1101011101 1101010101 11010100010 110111011111010 1101010101 10100000101 0101010101 0110000101 0011000101 110100111011101 1001011101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 01010011101 11110101010101 1110111101 1111111101 1011011101 1111011101 0111000111 01011101010001 0101010101 0111000101 1100010101 1101000101 1101110100 11011101010100 1001010101 1101010001 0101011101 1111010101 1101010001 01110011011101 1111101101 0101010100 1101010101 0111011111 1111010101 10110101010101 1111110111 0101010011 1101010101 1101110101 1011111010 10010100100100 1101110100 0101010101 1001010001 0101011100 1111110101 11010100010100 1111110111 1111000101 1101010101 1011010101 1011010111 1111110101101 101110111 1111110101 1101011101 0011010100 1101100111 01111111010101 1100010101 1111010101 0101001001 1101011101 0111110011 11100100110101 0101010101 1101010100 01001010101 10010101010 1101010001 11011011010011 0111010011 01001111001 010101111 1011110100 1111010111 10010101001011 1111010101 01000111001 1101010101 1101011011 0101001100 11010101010001 1101010100 1101110101 1011000101 1101110111 1111011001 11010101110101 1111010101 0011010101 0111000101 1001010101 1101010101 10010101111101 100110101 01001000101 1101010001 10110100010 1001011011 1000010100011101 0100110101 1001010101 1101010111 1101000100 1011011111 01000111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 277
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, it, thee, that, in, one, they are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and 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 Eros;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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