This is an analysis of the poem In A City Garden that begins with:

How strange that here is nothing as it was!
The sward is young and new, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXddc efea faaghghee gagaijghjkkjkaahlalaha ckccikgcgkmgmgamamfajXafXjXjncjXhnmhmkXkkgeaagenenaeXebb hooheaXae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,9,22,56,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111010101 010111 011101001 0101110111 1101111101 1101 1011 010100010111 110111 0111010101 00011111 11010101 1101 11000010001 0101110100 11010000101 1111 110010101 01000 11000101 01110101 1011 1001110100 110101 1100010111 110101 1111010111 1101010111 1111100111 010 11011111 110101 0100001101 110001111101 1100 10010001 0101001101 1001 0111000101 110101 1111001101 1111 0111000010 1001 11010101001 101100 010010101001 010101 1001011101 110111 01001101101 0101001101001 1101 11110101 1011010101 1101111111 10110110101 1111010101 1111001 110111 1001 1011010101 010101010010 1101010111 10111100 1101010 010100011 01111001100 101101 10001010101 110101 1101000101 110001 1101110101 11010101 100101 11010101 10111100 110111001 1111010101 1100011101 11111111100 1011 1100111 0101010111 1111 010101011111 1001000101 001 101101 01110101 1001001 1101010111 1001010 0101010101 00 11111111 1111 1111011101 10010001 1101010001 0011 110111 0101111101 1101010 01010111110 1101010 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; no, some, of, and, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, some, and are repeated.

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