This is an analysis of the poem Seven Years Old that begins with:
I.
SEVEN white roses on one tree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abaabab X cdccdcd X efeefef X XXdXddd a dcddcdc a ghgghgh X dbdXbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110111 101101010 10111111 10111111 1011001010 1111000 10111010 1 101000010 1010001 10111110 11111110 1010111 10101010 1111101 1 1010101 11011010 10110011 1110111 1110010010 1011111 01111010 1 10101000 10101000 11111110 110001100 10001101 1001001010 0111001 1 1111111 101001100 10100101 1111111 00101110 1110111 11111110 1 10111010 1011101 10111010 101110110 10101001 11111110 10101101 1 1111101 10101110 1011101 11101100 11111010 1110101 1001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; seven, white, not, and, little, so, glad, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seven, not, as, worth, little, yet are repeated.
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