This is an analysis of the poem A Flower Of A Day that begins with:
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace
Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd befg gchcbgabXbfXc aba Xeifab dbhjajXdiXaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,13,3,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110011101 100110011101 1001100100 11010101010 10110001001 1111111100 1101010101 1101000101 0101110101 1100111101 1001100101 1101011111 1111010011 1101110101 10111010101 1111110011 1011111101 110110001 0110011101 0101010001 11010 10101 00110011010 1011010101 1111110111 111101101 1011101110011 010101101 0101110101 1111000111 110101100110 01011101010 0101110111 1011100101 0111110111 1101010101 1100100000101 11010111010 1111011111 1110110111 1101110111 1101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; face, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, or are repeated.
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