This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady that begins with:
FLOWERS to the fair: To you these flowers I bring,
And strive to greet you with an earlier spring.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbddeeffggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100010111011 110110110001 10111110011 1001001101 01001011101 11001010101 10011001101 0101110101 01001110101 01001010101 0101010101 1011110101 1011000101 0111010101 1011110011 10101011101 1111011101 11110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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, flowers, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word flowers at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To A Lady;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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