This is an analysis of the poem Lovely White Flowers that begins with:

He went inside the cafe where they used to sit together.
It was here, three months ago, that his friend told him:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXcXddXbbXfaXgfXgfdfXaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100111101010 011110110111 101011110101 111001010 11101011010111001 1101111010101 010001011011111100 10101011 111101101 01110110101 101011111000 11110110010 01000101010011 1101011101 11101010110 111101011010 11010110011 11011101010 111101110010 111101110101 111010110 10110101010 001001010 1110001110 11001110101 0110111101010 0101001 110111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 244
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, his, to are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pounds is repeated).

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  • summary of Lovely White Flowers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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