This is an analysis of My Garden by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

If I could put my woods in song
And tell what's there enjoyed,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb bebe ffff bgbg XhXh XiXi ejej klkl heXe bmbm mbmb nfnf nene flfX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01111101 111101 11101101 110101 0111101 11011101 11010101 01110101 11000101 110101 011100111 110101 110101 10100111 1010101 1111001 01011001 01101110 11111101 10111010 10111101 11010101 11111101 10010101 10100111 110011001 1011111 110101 11110100 10110010 00101100 1101001010 101001 1001001 1010001 11010101 11100111 0011111 10010101 11011101 1001001 01010101 110101100 01010001 100100111 1010011 1000111 1011111 10010001 110001 1111001 110101 10111101 0110101 110101111 110011 10101001 100100111 11111101 11110111 1010111 01011101 01110111 101001000
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 16
  • Lines: 64

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

the, and