This is an analysis of the poem The White Rose And The Red Rose that begins with:
The white rose and the red rose,
So sisters two were named, yes, named....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccAB acaXccAB dcdcccXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 11010111 0111110 011111 110011101 11010101 01111111 011111 1101110 11011111 1101110 111101 01111101 01011101 01111111 011111 1101110 11010111 0111010 010111 11110101 01110101 01110111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; red, so, him, one, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word white at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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