This is an analysis of the poem To Bid Her Live that begins with:

Bring to her spring flowers,
Cowslip and celandine,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabcbdebdeaXbafb deXdeXdgfdgff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000110 101101 11010101 1101010 001101 1101001101 110101 101011 1001010111 011101 011111 1001010001 110101 111100 1101111101 111101 011101 1011010111 110101 110101 0101011101 010111 111101 1101111100 100101 110101 1101110101 110101 110011 1101010111 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of To Bid Her Live;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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