This is an analysis of the poem My Garden that begins with:
I have a little garden plot,
'Tis very small indeed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXb cdcXd babba ecefc gegge ahaah ifiiX jhjjh kikki lalla fbeeb giggi ijiij jajjja gaggaXjcjjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11000101 11010111 111111 110010111 110101 11010101 1101101010 110101 110011111 110101 11010101 11110101 010001 11110111 111001 11010101 111100100 110101 11011111 111111 10110111 11011101 111101 11011101 1101001 010011101 10011101 111011 11011111 11010010 11010111 110010111 1111100 01011101 110100 110111001 01010101 0110100 1100111 111101 11010111 1101101001 011111 01011101 010101 11011101 01010101 010101 01011100 110101 11010111 11010111 001101 11011101 010011 11011101 11011111 010101 11011101 111101 110101011 01110101 011111 01001111 111101 11111111 11010011 01110101 110111 11111101 010111 01111111 010010111 0100101 11110101 1111001 11101101 110110101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; i, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, and are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Garden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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