This is an analysis of the poem Autumn Violets that begins with:
Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring:
Of if these bloom when worn-out autumn grieves,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdedce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111001001 0011111101 1011010101 1111011100 11001111111 1101110101 1011001101 1101110100 110010011111 1111010111 1001010101 1011110101 11011111001 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, love, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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