This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xxxviii: My Love, Once Upon A Time that begins with:

My love, once upon a time your poet
launched a great epic in his mind....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXbabXcXeXXeXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101110 10110001 0111110101 11010110 1 011001011 110111 1111001001 11110101 110111 11101001 11 0110010110 111011010 111 110111111 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 is repeated.

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  • summary of The Gardener Xxxviii: My Love, Once Upon A Time;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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