This is an analysis of the poem A Lost Flower that begins with:

Droop all the flowers in my garden,
All their fair heads hang low;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcDeDXfafcDeD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100110 111111 11110010 1001011 11110110 111101 111011010 1111101 1110110 100101 10010110 110111 111110110 111101 111011010 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Lost Flower;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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