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

These are the gardens of the Desert, these
The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddXebdfagefgaehafhhfihfajehakla haaajdmaafefiaiahXiahaccfghmnhnaabandhXdkfceaaagmaf aghlodaeianaapidb maXnhjenpXXojhhfcanfcn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,51,17,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 0101101100 1101010111 0101010101 1111100101 100010010111 0101000101 10010001001 1101010101 1100110100 11111000101 1100111101 01011101001 1101010111 0101010001 11010101110 1101011111 1011111111 0101010111 01011100101 1001000101 0001010111 01010100110 11110101001 0111010011 1111011111 0101000101 1101010101 10010010001 01011011101 10010100110 1011010101 01011001001 1111010101 11001011111 0101111101 0101000111 0101011101 0111110111 0101011001 01110001101 1101010101 1101010111 0011010011 1001111101 10010011001 1011011101 1100100001 0100110101 01001011101 1011011101 11011101010 110110001 1101010011 1111110111 0001010111 01000100001 1011010111 0101011111 1011010001 0101010001 1101110101 1011110111 1111010101 1111010101 1101011111 0111110011 01001110001 01011111001 01100011111 0110010111 0100110001 1011010100 11100110111 1011010100 1001110101 0101010101 10011100101 1101010111 1011101100 1001001111 0101110111 1001110101 0011101101 1001110101 1101010101 10010110001 11010100101 1010010111 1101011111 1100010101 0101010101 1101111101 1101110111 01110101001 1111010010 1101010011 0101111101 0101010101 1001010111 01010011111 0101110101 1011010101 10011101010 1101010100 1111110101 1111010001 1001000101 1001110101 01010010011 0111010101 1001000100 1101100101 0101011101 0001011111 0101010101 1111110001 1101010011 0101011101 0101000101 1001000101 1001110111 0101111111 1110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1369
  • Average number of words per stanza: 239
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, with, of, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.

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