This is an analysis of the poem Three Flower Petals that begins with:
When saw I yesterday walking apart
In a leafy place where the cattle wait?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabab cdcdebeb fbfbcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 0010110101 1001101011 0101100101 101100111 1110100100 0010110111 011100110 101110111 1011101101 1010111001 100100101 0110100111 0010011110 110100101 10100110 101101101 110100110 10101101110 110011100 1010100111 11011001010 00101101001 1010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, her, of are repeated.
The author used the same word laughing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sunflower at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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