This is an analysis of the poem Song—on A Bank Of Flowers that begins with:
ON a bank of flowers, in a summer day,
For summer lightly drest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbCCb bdbdccCcc dedeffCCf gdgdbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000101 110101 01010101 011110 11010101 11010111 1111 1111 110111 0111101 010101 01111101 010101 01010101 11010101 1111 11011 010111 01110001 010101 01010101 110011 110010101 010010111 1111 1111 110101 11010001 110101 11010101 0110001 11010111 11010001 1111 1101 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, her are repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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