This is an analysis of the poem What One Says To The Poet On The Subject Of Flowers that begins with:

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Thus, ever, towards the azure night...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a babc bbbd XbeX fgfh Xdad dede X fiff jgjg ggXd kbkb ghlh mghg gdgd gnXg dhdX X jnjc naXa dldl cmcm bnbn nfnf ebeb X lglg nXnX godd gcgg Xodo XXhg gjXX jXjd fgfc gggg fhfh a idid XgXX iaia hngn eXeh fbfb XbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110010101 11100111 01001101 0101100100 0111010111 11011101 010010101 01010111 010001010 0100011001 1101011010 0001010101 1010111001 101101010 11011010 11111010 11111101 11010111 10010101 01010111 110111 10101010 1011100 01110010 1 11001111 001101011 00100101 00101010 0101101 11100010 100101101 111001010 0110111 11100100 10101100 01011101 1101001 011001101 10010111 10010101 11101010 011011110 1101010 10100110 010010100 010101010 011011010 10101010 110011010 1100101 010100101 11001101 1100101 101101 00101010 0101011 1010011 0101010 1011011 10111100 1 1110101 1010101 1111 010010100 1101101 01010101 10101111 0100001011 1111011 010101 000101010 1001010001 1100100 11001010 10010010 010110010 010101000 101110111 1010111 1010111 1111111 10110101 010111 10111010 1101110 100111010 10110101 1110010100 1 110100001 10100010 100111010 100101010 1111101 01101010 01000101 11010100 1010101 1110101 01000111 1010101 11010111 01100100 01100101 1001101 11100100 01011010 0010111 1101010 11101101 011010 1111010 1101010 10101001 10111101 10111100 101100101 1111001 100100100 1000100111 10101010 1010101 1101110 0101101 1101110 11101011 11111010 11111100 11100010 11110111 10101010 10100101 00111010 1 10010101 0101010 11011011 1110101 1100110 10011100 0110110 101101000 10010100 111100 01010100 01110101 01110100 110111 111110 01010101 10010001 1011010 011111 1010010 11011010 10100111 10101010 010001001 00101 010000101 01110110 101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 45
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • 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:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, always, to, worth, speak, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words always, speak, seek at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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