This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Ix: When I Go Alone At Night that begins with:

When I go alone at night to my
love-tryst, birds do not sing, the wind...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbbeXecXXdabXXcddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011101 11111101 111010111 001110 001110111 1100111101 11111100110 101111110 1011010010 010101101 00101001 001111110 111110100 1111111 111110101 11110110 01110110 1111001 000101111 11111111 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 744
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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

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