This is an analysis of the poem The Flower, Full Blown, Now Bends The Stalk, Now Breaks that begins with:
The flower, full blown, now bends the stalk, now breaks;
The mellow fruit inclines the bough to earth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXcdcdcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01011110111 0101010101 01110111001 1100010101 1001111110 0101010101 11011011101 1111011101 11111010111 0101010101 1101010001 110101111 1101011101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; by is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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