This is an analysis of the poem The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux that begins with:
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece bfbf gdgd XXaX chch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110101010 1001110101 01100101010 1101111101 11101011101 1101001101 1001111111 1111110101 1101001101 1101010101 1101010011 1101110101 0001010011 0111010111 1101001111 1111110001 0100001101 1111011101 11010000101 1101111111 0101010101 0100011110 0101110111 1101010101 0100111101 1001001111 1011101111 1001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, we are repeated.
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