This is an analysis of the poem Bavarian Gentians that begins with:
Not every man has gentians in his house
in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefceXXfXgagbXbXbXXXbdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110001 01010111100 010010111101 10001110001010010 1 111001101011 1100001101001011 110001101010111 11001011011 1011011011001111 1 1111101 110101101 11111001110010 1010110111010110 1011001110110010 0010111001001 1100010101101 01010010000101 001010111000101 110011001000101 010100111010 100101010 01001011111 100011110010100101 110100101101011 11001101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; blue, of, me, dark are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word down is repeated.
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