This is an analysis of the poem Lilacs that begins with:

Lilacs,
False blue, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcdEfgfhfffXfXiagjdkkidhlgffmaXihffacjdbfbjfmafjfag aBcdEifXlllffcfbfbacgmfafafiiffgmfmlfXfgem aBcdEgggcccXXai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,42,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11 1 10 10011 111010 1101001110 011111 1010111101111 110111 0010110 0110110101101 1100101111 0101 11010 1010101001101 111000101 1001100010111 11110100100110101 0101010001 11101 10101 1101010101010 11010101011001 11101010101010 101001110101010 1010110011 1100100110 101101010 1110111 1001001101 10110010 1100111111 1001110 011101111 11100111010101110 101001101 1010100101001010011 110100111 0101010 0111 01011011 111101 10011 11111111101 110011 10011110110 110110101011111110 110111100111111011 1100110110 111001010101101 0110101 11 11 1 10 10011 11010110100 011001110 01001010010010 1110101010 010010 01000111010 1001111 1000111010100 101001001011 101011110 111 11010 110011 11010 101 1111010100110 0100110010001 1110110 10110 11011011 1001011011 11010110 0101110 0101001001010 11110110 100101000101110101 101110110 10011011101111 10110111 1111001011 10011110 1011111 1011 11010 110100011 10111011 0100010101 11 11 1 10 10011 11011110110 1011101010110 11010111110 0111100 0111100 01110110 0100110 11100001 11000111 1100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1288
  • Average number of words per stanza: 228
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, of, and, flower, may, lilac, new, england, because, my, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the, a, and, may, because are repeated.

    The author used the same word lilacs 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 everywhere, flower, children, england, it are repeated).

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