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

You are not troubled with solving enigmas
O, beautiful Rose! nor do you have sublime feelings in your heart...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa ab Xc de ff ee bd gg ba ah ch XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110010100 1100111110110011 111000010111001 01010111010110 011011001100010 111001011001 01100101110 11110110100 1100101011110 111101010 1111001011010101 1010111010001 011010001111010 110111010110 11101001001 100101110010111 111011101010 110101011 01101110010010 00101001010 11010001001 1101100101010 110100010101010 11001010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, garden, from, of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i, this, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).

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  • summary of The Colorful Rose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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