This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of A Bride that begins with:

Graceful and young the peach-tree stands;
How rich its flowers, all gleaming bright!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAb AcAc AdAd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10110111 110101101 01001101 10111101 10110111 11010101 01001101 10110111 10110111 010100111 01001101 01100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

    The author used the same word graceful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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