This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xiv: I Was Walking By The Road that begins with:

I was walking by the road, I do not
know why, when the noonday was past...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabXaXaXcAdcdebfadcbabfXXdghcaabXXdXcghedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101111 11101011 101101000 1 0111011 1110010 01001 0101001 1 1110101111 11 0110100100 101110101 11110001 101011000 10 110101111 1 01010110 1001011100 1010 010101000 1010101010 101 111011111 1 0010101010 110100001 110011010 010101 010010111 01101110 101 110110101 11111 111100110 010011 010101010 1110100110 1010101 1100101111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 227
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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.

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