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

The fountains are dry and the roses over.
Incense of death. Your day approaches....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX bXaX XXXc bbbc bXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101010 010111010 011011010 01101001 111010010 01100001 11110 110011100 10011010 110100 10110010 1010110011 110101001 10010111 01010010 0101011 100101 111001000 0110101 0110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.

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