This is an analysis of The Sunken Garden by Walter de la Mare.

Speak not — whisper not;
Here bloweth thyme and bergamot;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXbcc aaddeeffgggg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,12,
  • Metre: 11101 11011100 10101010 10111010 1111011 1110100 1010101 1010101 11111 0011101 1000011 01010101 010101001 00110101 1010111 110110001 1010111 10101101 1011101 1110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

perchance