This is an analysis of the poem The Sunken Garden that begins with:
Speak not — whisper not;
Here bloweth thyme and bergamot;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXbcc aaddeeffgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11011100 10101010 10111010 1111011 1110100 1010101 1010101 11111 0011101 1000011 01010101 010101001 00110101 1010111 110110001 1010111 10101101 1011101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word perchance is repeated.
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