This is an analysis of the poem Symbols that begins with:
I watched a rosebud very long
Brought on by dew and sun and shower,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabX cddcdc effefe dggdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111111110 100100110 11110101 010101010 111100 11010101 01110101 01110101 11111101 01111101 1101101 10111101 11110101 10011101 11011101 11010101 111101 10111001 10110101 01111101 01111101 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Symbols;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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