This is an analysis of the poem Irony that begins with:

Always, sweetheart,
Carry into your room the blossoming boughs of cherry,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccca deddedafaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111 10001101001010 10110110101110 1101101110100001 1100101011110 00101111101011010 01110111010011001 01110111 10101101 0100001 101010101 100111101 0101 1011 11001000101 00100101101 01101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, her, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Irony;
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  • history of its creation;
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