This is an analysis of the poem White Pansies that begins with:

Day and night pass over, rounding,
Star and cloud and sun,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcdc bcXc XeXe dfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11111 10111110 01101 11101110 10111 1011110 00111 11111110 11001 11111110 11101 10111110 10101 10101110 10111 110010110 11111 11101110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, mine are repeated.

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  • summary of White Pansies;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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