This is an analysis of the poem Trollius And Trellises that begins with:

of course, I may die in the next ten minutes
and I’m ready for that ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXXgcXe hhbdbcef eiceejckdb ibccl mXebbdna mnajkjjdXX ejooana XcoeHnbam aagbjpa XH opc ab mfccenbabinl dgkXejnXXnipd gblena Xfbcbfncjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,5,8,10,7,9,7,2,3,2,12,13,6,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111001110 111011 1111010010 11100100101 1011010101 1 011100111111 1101 110110100100 10101010 1001101 1 1111111111 01 1 011101 110111110 101 0010 1011 1000101010 11001100 0100011 1001 010 110011000 1010101 010 11101011 1 1111110 1 111111100 110 010101 0110110 1000 1100010 11 111001 0111 0010111 101 101100100 011001110101 10 1100 0100 0010100 100 101 11001 1 1011101001 00 101 1011 100 10011 010 11010100 1 10100111 1100100 101 1 1 10111 10 1001 101 111 11 00 10 1 1110100 101 1111 10110 010 0100 1 101100100 11 11 001010 0010 1 1001010 11 11001111 10 1110 101 110010011 100000 1100 101110 01 10101000 10101 100010 11 1 1110110 1100 01 111 1110111 110101 1101 101101 10 0101 11010 11110 101011 100 1 10101 10 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Trollius And Trellises;
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