This is an analysis of the poem Passage For Allen Ginsberg that begins with:

Sunflowers beside the railroad tracks,
sunflowers giving back the beauty God gave you...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebXfghbgfXbchicchgeiiaXdifeeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110010111 110101010111 0110100 11100110 11101010010110 11001011 1001101 11010 110101 01011111010 1010111 101111101 1110010100 01001101011 111011101101 1110100101010 101110 1100 01010 11010 11110110 11011101 01001001000101 101010001 11000100101010 100101011001 1101001001 11110010 0101100110 11011010 0111101001 101111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 212
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; she, and, her, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sunflowers, would, and are repeated.

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

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