This is an analysis of the poem The Glory Of The Garden that begins with:

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views,
Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaaa aaee ffaa gghh aahh aabbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11000101010101 01011100111101 01110100111101 101000101011101 1101101010111 101011101110101 01110110010101 01011110010101 1111010011101 11011111100011 101111101110101 01000100100101 1111010111101 11110101010111 11111101110111 10100010100111 11000101110111 1101011000110001 11011111111101 11010101010101 11010111110111 11011111110111 10111101110001 101000101001001 111101001111010 0010101101101110 111111011101010 1011001000100010 11010100111111 110101001010101 11110101111111 101000101011101 11010001010111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, can, some, so, there's, not, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, there's are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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