This is an analysis of the poem In The Grass that begins with:

Sweet peace, sweet delight of grass,
Of its aroma breathed about me:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefag fXXehcee adegXceX bdXcbhXh X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 000101011 1111011 10101110 101110101 110101 10111011 110101001 1001011 111011 1010101 1111001 11101011 10100101 1001001 1111001 101101101 001101010 10100101 1011001 1010010010 1001001011 1011001 1101110 1101101 01110101 010011001 011100 11111 011001001 010110010 111001011 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; dead, of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.

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  • summary of In The Grass;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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