This is an analysis of the poem The Secret Garden that begins with:
I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers,
when you came with white rabbits in your arms; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cXba XXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110110 1110110011 101101010010 10111011001 11111100011 0101111010001 010101001110 111010011010 11110001010 111001000100 11101111010 101011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Secret Garden;
- central theme;
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