This is an analysis of the poem The Easter Decorations that begins with:
O take away your dried and painted garlands!
The snow-cloth's fallen from each quicken'd brow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcdc XeXe dXXd Xdbd Xfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111010 0111001101 0111010010 11011101101 11010111110 0111010001 110111001110 1001000101 11110011110 0111010101 110000101110 11100011111 11010101110 11010101001 01010101100 1111110101 10011101011 1100110101 11001101110 1010100101 1101010010 0011011001 11110101010 0100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 words the, and are repeated.
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