This is an analysis of the poem Bavarian Gentias 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: aXbcdefcef Xggbabd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110001 01010111100 010010111101 10001111001010010 1 111101101011 1100001101001011 110001101010111 11001011011 10110110110011111111101 110101101 11111001110010 10101101110101101011001110010010 001011100010101 1100010101 1010010010000101 0010101100100110101001001010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 558
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, blue, me, where are repeated.
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