This is an analysis of the poem The Year Of The Rose that begins with:

From the depths of the green garden-closes
Where the summer in darkness dozes... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXbab ccbbcddede ffggfbbebe hhiihjjkjk llaalmmbmb ggddgaabab kkaakddede ccbbcggdgd Xabbabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011010 101001010 1101001 110111101 00110101100 001111101 111010010 100111 0100101 00111001 00111001 011001111 01011101 1100101 1101001 1111001 1010110101 11001101 00111101 00110101 00100101 10110111 10110111 11001001 001111011 10111001 11101101 10111101 10111011 00111101 110010010 110011010 01001001 00111101 1111011 001001001 1110110 0101101 00101101 001010101 1101001 01001111 101111001 10111011 11101101 11010111 101001101 1010001101 1111011 10111101 0010101001 10110111 10110111 101011101 101001001 00110101 1110101 0100101 10111011 10111010 00100111 11101001 10100101 1111001 11101111 10101001 1100101 1111101 0101001 00111001 1111011 00111001 00100111 11101001 1111101 11111101 10100101 10100101 0011011100 011011110 101001101 0010111001 0010011010 00111001 01110010 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, of, not, eyes, her, and, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, of, and, to, in, as are repeated.

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  • summary of The Year Of The Rose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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