This is an analysis of the poem Have You Seen But A Bright Lily Grow that begins with:
Have you seen but a bright lily grow
Before rude hands have touched it?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 0111110 11110101 01011100 11101010 11110 1111011010 1010010 111001001 11111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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