This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xxviii: Your Questioning Eyes that begins with:

Your questioning eyes are sad. They
seek to know my meaning as the moon...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdXefdfghcghibXgXegiggiXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111 101110101 11001 11111011 10101010 101111011 111 0001001111 0000101011 0000101111 0001001011 11111100 01010011 100011010 11011010 11101000 1011101 00010010010 0110011011 111011000 10 000100101 101010100 10100101 10011010 01011110 1100111 0011011111 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 991
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; it, and, its are repeated.

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