This is an analysis of the poem Giacinta that begins with:

Giacinta sat upon the garden wall
Among the autumn lilies, and let fall... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbCd eXffggXX XdffhhiijjbbhhbbaahhhhdcffffffkkjXlX bbCd mXhhelnnmmelhhaaddllooffbbffppllhheeXhbbbXXaahhdC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,36,4,49,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010100 1011010111 11001011111 01010010100 1101011101 1111011111 0011010101 1111010001 11111100110 1011011101 1111110100 1111001001 1101001101 1000111101 1101111101 0101110101 0011011001 1001100101 0111000101 11010101001 1001110011 1001111111 1101010101 1101110101 0111010011 01011101101 1111110111 0111010101 1110111101 0111101101 1111110111 11010101101 01001110101 0100111100 1100010111 1111110001 11110101110 11100110010 1011111111 1101011111 0101011111 0011110111 1101111101 1011110100 1111010100 1111011111 1101010111 1001001101 1101010100 11001010101 11011101111 0101110100 0101110111 1111111111 1111010101 1101010101 11010100011 1101111101 0111001101 110011101 1011010101 10111000101 1011010001 1101010111 0111011001 11001110101 11010110101 11001111111 1100011100 1111001001 0111111111 11111011001 0011111101 1111100101 0111110101 1101010101 11110011101 1101101111 1001010111 1111110101 00101011101 0111100001 1101010101 0001010111 1101110100 0101010001 1111111001 11001110100 0111110101 0101010101 0100011111 1101111011 1111010101 1101010100 0101011101 01011100101 0111011111 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 724
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, in, his, dead, you, it, my, had, to, one, not, i, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, is, of 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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