This is an analysis of the poem Oh, See How Thick The Goldcup Flowers that begins with:

Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacXX ddddXedX cXcXcXeX fbfbXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010 1100111 0101001010 1101101 11111101 111101 11110111 111111 101111111 110111 11111101 010101 11001110010 1101011 01111111 111111 11111101 110101 11110101 1100111 11111111 110101 11011111 101110 110111111 110101 11010101 111111 111001010 111101 0111011110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; may, you, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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