This is an analysis of the poem Rosa Flammea that begins with:

Beautiful demon, O veil those eyes of fire,
Cover your breasts that are whiter than milk, and ruddy... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcecceaffaecceghaghcciiaaiiaai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101111010 1011111011110 0101001001110 111001001010 10110101110011 1011001101001 01111101011 1010011010011101 111111111111 01111001111011 11010011100011 0101100111101 101001101110110 11111011011 110111100101 111111010110 1111111111 10101111101 00101111011011 10111111011 1110110001010 10110010011 1011010100 01101001111010 10010110011 100101001011 1101001010111 11001111111 11110100101010 000100011110 101111010011010 0010011010010 11101100101 0101111001010 110010101010 111101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 372
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, your, me, lost, i, and, in, help, rose are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, thee are repeated).

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