This is an analysis of the poem Snap-Dragon that begins with:
She bade me follow to her garden where
The mellow sunlight stood as in a cup ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcX ddedff cgcghX ffijij gfgfg gjjcbcb bhkkjkj gXXdf lclcjjj ejeje fjfjjfjfj cfcjffjcck jXjXii cecemm didihhjejeeenjnjoo pcpchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,5,7,7,5,7,5,9,10,6,6,18,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 0101111001 0101111011 0111101111 1011110110 11000100111 1001111101 11010010011 11001011101 0011111011101 011100101000 1101101100100 11011111101 110011101001 101010011001 1101111101 10101110111 1110110111 11110110010 1001011110010 10111111 100110100011 11011101101 0100101010101 10111111 0111110 010011 100110010 111101 110111 010111001 10110100 110111101 11110001 11011111 0010100001 1100111 1111001011 11101011111001 1101101 1111101 001111001 11101 011110101 011101010 111100110 0111 110100010 0101 100101 01001 0101 01001 0101 0101 1111111 01010101 110001 101111 0101001 011101110 10010111 1101110 101111 0111111 11111010 0111001 0110010 11000001 1101101 1101110 101111 0111111 1101010 1111110 011101 0110101101 001101011 0100101 1101101101 00101111110 11011111001 00101101010101 111100100101 11111110101 11010101001 1101011101 1101010111111 111011010001 0101011101 01010110101001 11011100101 0111110101 11110110101 010110111101 1100101111 111101101111 1110010111001 1010100101101 111100101001 1111111101 0101010001001 1111010101 1011100101101 001010110101 111110100101 1001010011 01010100100 001001010100 111111011001 1111111101 00111110001 110111110101 11011101111 11110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, of, like, she, my, i, longed, to, this, and, their, dark are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, she are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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