This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Of The Primroses that begins with:
Primroses, why do you pass away?
Primroses... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babb ccdd ccbb eeXf ccgg hhcc ccii ffXf eebb ffjj bbii eeXb bbii kkii jjaX ffii hheX aall
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111101 110 110111101 1111011010 11000101010 10101101 11010111 100010101 110100111 10101101101 1111111111 101100101 1100101111 111101111 11101100101 1011110111 1011100101 010100101 10100100101 011010111 10101100101 1100100111 10110100101 01001101001 111100101 110010101 110011111 1101110111 1100100101 1010100101 011100101 111010111 110101101 10110110101 1011110101 011101111 1100110111 111010101 0110000001 1110011101 111010111 11101101011 1110100101 01011101011 10100111111 010010111 1101110111 1010100110 1011100101 1111001001 10111010101 1100100101 1010110111 111100101 110011001 1111111001 1010100101 1111100111 0101101111 0110110111 1010111101 1111101111 110011111 010100101 10101111101 11111111011 111010101 1011110111 1010010100 111111101 110101111 1110101101 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words primroses, we, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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