This is an analysis of the poem The Easter Flower that begins with:

Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly
My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010101110 1110011101 11011101010 1100011101 01010101001 1101010101 0101110111 0011011100 1101010101 11100101010 1101010101 10111000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Easter Flower;
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