This is an analysis of the poem But One Night, Venus Came To Bring Me Roses that begins with:

But one night, Venus came to bring me roses.
It was in the grove, where I was yet asleep....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc a dXceac XcfaeXafX fcgdcbXchf adaa daahXgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,6,9,10,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101110 01001111101 11111100100 110011010101 001111010101 01000101 111010 01111 10011 1101010 11010011 1101111 10101101 10101101101 001101100101 11001011101 011111111 0100110101 00101100101 111010101001 11100101 111011111 010010 100100010 1111011 10101 01111010001 11011111011 1110 11111001 1011101 110111 1010 0110010101 1111001011 10110011010 110011011 10011 1110111011110 101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; she, of, and, in are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words in, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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