This is an analysis of the poem Lichens that begins with:
Pale-green and black and bronze and grey,
In broken arabesque and foliate star,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbcadcdaXecXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 01010011011 111101 01011 111111 1101111001 01011100001 110111 1001010011 11010001 0101000101 1111100110 1001010100 011101 11110000010 100100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Lichens;
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