This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xlvi: You Left Me that begins with:

You left me and went on your way.
I thought I should mourn for you...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdefceXgaXdXXghXceXdcfhhhaccbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 1111111 11110101001 1100101 111101010 1 1111010 011110001 101110101 11111010 1010101 1101100110 11110111 1101110 1101 1111010 10011110 101101010 111001 11111110 11111110 001011110 11101011 101 00101001001 11011111 11 00010011101 01010001 10111011 11101011 110110111 1101011 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, to, my are repeated.

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