This is an analysis of the poem Romance In The Market Place that begins with:

YOU stood beside the flowers,
Yourself a flower;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacbdXeaXefdgdggebfbcfceheXhgXghhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 10010 1111 011101010 0111 110111100101 110111 11001 0111 1001110110 0101 110101110101 110111 1101 1111 01110111 1111 010111011111 110111 1101 1001 01011101 1111 111111111101 110101 1111 1001 11011101 1101 110111011111 111111 1100 0111 11111001 1111 100111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 204
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 and is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Romance In The Market Place;
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