This is an analysis of the poem To The Century Plant that begins with:

Plant of a hundred years! destroying Time
Passes thy gentle race with hurrying trend,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dbdbbXbcc efeffgfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001000101 10110101001 1111010011 1011010101 1101000101 10110001010 110100111001 11111111010 10010011110010 111111110101 1111011011 01011111011 1111010011 01001010101 101100111010 11001110111 110101010010 0011010111110 01110110001 1111011111 0101111111 1101110101 11010110011 1110011111 1111000101 111111101 111101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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 is repeated.

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  • summary of To The Century Plant;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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