This is an analysis of the poem Flora Of The Eden: Antwerp that begins with:

Eyes that sought my eyes, an-hungered, as a fire;
Hands that sought and caught my hands in their desire;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111001010 111111101010 111111111010010 11101010101 11111001101 1110101010101 11101010101 11111011111 1111100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; eyes, hands, and, that, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hands, but are repeated.

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