This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Lxiv: I Spent My Day that begins with:

I spent my day on the scorching
hot dust of the road....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddefdXXffXdabdbcgcgXfdeXbccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11001 100100101 110100100 0101010 0110110 1010110 1010001 1101100 11011101 111100 11001100 10111110 11 11010010 111011 10101011 100011 111010101 1111 01100111 1000101011 111001 101100110 11110110 1111101 11 1101011101 011 011001111 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 917
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).

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