This is an analysis of the poem The Rose-Bush that begins with:
There was a rose-bush in a garden growing,
Its tender leaves unfolding day by day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acXc adaX ecec cccc fgfg fdfd hihX XfXf cici dfdf fcfcXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011001010 0101010111 011110110 100101010101 01111100010 01010001010 01100111100 1111000100010 0111010111 01110001 0111000101 01110111010 1101010111010 1100010010 010100100110 01110001010 1101110101 10111101010 0111010101 11010001010 11010011101 1100100101 1011010101 11110011111 1101110101 01110101001 0110011101 01010010100101 110101001 11111101 111101011 00110111 110101110 11010111 11110011 01011101 0101001010 11110101 010111010 01111101 1101011111 01010101 111111011101 11000111 11110001 110000101 1111001101 11010001 11110111 010101010 0101010101 010011000110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; it, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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