This is an analysis of the poem To A Blue Hepatica that begins with:
A flake of light-blue sky,
Perched on the top of a slender stem,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabcc cddeeff ggcddceeadda gcgcXc ccccdcdhiaahXXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,12,6,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 110100101 1010010110 111111101 111101 101110011 001111 1101 10011 01101 0101 01111 1111001 1110 110101 10111 10101101001 11111 10111 0110110101 11110101 1111101 110101011 01011101 01010100 01100110 1111001 111111 111101 011101 100100 110101 11100101 01011001 01010101 1111100101 00101100100 111110101 01010111 1111011110 0101 01111101 010101000 010101010 00100 10011001 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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