This is an analysis of the poem To ****, With Flowers that begins with:

Go, ye sweet messengers,
To that dim-lighted room,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd Xebe afXf Xcac acXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 011101 11010001 100101 110101 100101 11011101 100101 101101 110101 10100101 100111 011100 110101 101101000 110011 110101 1011001 11010101 111101 111111 110101 10011101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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  • summary of To ****, With Flowers;
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