This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Lxviii: None Lives For Ever, Brother that begins with:

None lives for ever, brother, and
nothing lasts for long. Keep that in...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdXbdefXAcfXegehgacidggaabdAchfidchXidAceXggfiXbXXAc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 10111110 1101 110101110 1101011 10 111011011 11 01011111 11010110 110110 1011011 01 1110110 10100010 110101100 1001011 1101001 011010100 1001 1011011 01 1100101101 11101010 1 01011110 11011011 100101 11010101011 11101010 1011011 01 101111010 1110110010 01 01011000110 11011 11010110 1111 001111000 101001 1011011 01 100101011 100011010 11 100100101 1110110 010 10111000010 10 111000101 10100111 1011011 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 287
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, it, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, the are repeated.

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