This is an analysis of the poem Marigolds that begins with:
With a fork drive Nature out,
She will ever yet return; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBB cdcDDBb ceceeDDBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0011101 1010101 10100101 1111111 1010101 1010101 01010101 10100101 1010111 01010101 1111111 1010101 10010101 1110101 1111001 0101111 1111101 1010111 01010101 1111111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; or is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word return at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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