This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xiii: Last Night In The Garden that begins with:

Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. You
lifted the cup to your lips, you shut your eyes and smiled while...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXaXcab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101101111011 10010111111111 111101110101011 1111001011101 110101010 010011100111100 11011101001000 1001111010011001 0111001001101010 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, in, of are repeated.

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