This is an analysis of the poem Flora that begins with:

REMOTE from scenes, where the o'erwearied mind
Shrinks from the crimes and follies of mankind, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdd eeffgghhiieejj kkaaaaaaggbXcc aaXcjjaaaaeehh aahhgghhaabbhh hhllhheemmbbcc jjbbhhXjXahhaa aaXbjjbbaamm hhjjhhhXaacccc hhhhmmccjjkkaajj mXiiXdgXhhhhaa nnaaaaaajjoohhhh ccXhnnjjppcchh hhcXhhqqhhhhccaa ddbbiihhbbhhbbnn rrbbbbXcbbccnnhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,14,14,14,14,14,12,14,16,14,16,14,16,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011010001 1001110011 0011010101 1101011101 0101111101 1101010011 01010011101 100110101 0111010101 110110110001 1011001101 0111010101 1011011001 001010001001 1111000001 0111110101 11010111010 11010101010 1011010101 1011110101 0101110101 11001010101 1101010101 1101000101 10010100101 0101110101 111000101 1101011101 0101000101 1011010111 1101010101 1111010011 01001101001 0101100101 0101011101 0101010001 0101110101 0101000101 0101011101 0101000101 1110001110 1011010101 110010001001 0100101010001 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000001 0101010111 0101000101 011000111010 10111101010 1001011101 1101000101 0111011101 11010010101 0101010101 010010111 1001010101 11010010101 11011101001 0101110101 0101111101 1001010111 10101010111 1100010101 101000101 11001010101 0101011111 1011010111 0001010101 0101110001 010010011101 01010010001 1001100001 11110100101 010111101 1101110001 1101011101 0101011111 1101011001 1001010001 01010010101 1101010101 0011110111 0101010101 1111100110 1010000101 100110101100 11010010101 11000101001 01010110101 1001000101 10010100101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011001 0101010101 0101110101 1000100101 1011010101 0101010101 1111001101 01010100111 01010010101 10011100001 10101010101 1001010101 01010101001 100111100101 01001010101 11010001001 10010110101 100010101001 1011000101 10110011101 0101010101 0101010101 11010101010 11110101010 0101010101 11001010101 0101010101 1101011101 1011110101 1101000101 10110110001 10110000101 1011000111 0101010101 0111000101 1011110101 1011110101 1100110101 1101010101 1111011101 110100111 1111011100 1101010101 11010010101 10011101100 0111110101 1001011101 1111010101 110010101001 01110101001 10110111010 01010101010 10011010111 0101010101 1101011101 1100010111 1011110101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 01010110101 1101010101 1001010101 1100010101 0101010101 1001010101 011011101 1101011101 10011100101 1101000101 1111111101 0100010101 110101010010 10111100101 1111011101 11001010101 0101100101 010101011 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 01110010101 1101010101 111110101 11110110101 1101010111 11111000100 10001010111 1011011111 1101010101 11010101001 1101000111 1111010101 10001110101 0101010101 0101110101 010011100101 10110100101 01010101001 1111010101 1101010101 10010010101 1111011101 1100010111 1111010101 11110101110 1101111000010 1101011101 0111110101 1101010001 01001010101 1011110111 1111010101 10111101101 1011110101 11110101001 101101001 1111110101 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 1100010110 10101001101 1011011001 1101110001 10011100101 10111110001 11010101111 1111011101 1111010101 0111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 228
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; from, and, to, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Flora;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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