This is an analysis of the poem A Rose Will Fade that begins with:

You were always a dreamer, Rose - red Rose,
As you swung on your perfumed spray,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccB abccbXabccB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1011010111 11111011 10110111 10100101 0101001 101100111 11100111 11011111 1010101 0101001 110110111 0101101 11010101 1011101 0101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, rose are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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