This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Embassy that begins with:
THE lilies lean to the white, white rose,
The sweet limes send to the blossomed trees, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabb ccaaaXdX eeeffcc eeaaaeedfdddggeedaaX dXffeaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,7,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100111 011100101 110110101 110100101 1100110101 00101001010 1011101111 111101111 1101101101 0110101111 110111111 1111110111 1100101 110100101 110101101 111010101 111111110 1110010001010 011011111 011010101 111010111 011100111 111110110010 110101011 111101111 1010110101 111101111 111111101 1101101110 11000100111 11101011011 00100110101 1011010111 11111111 110111111 11011001001 1110111111 111100111 1110111101 111101111 011110111 110101101 0101001110 011010110110 110101101 101110111 110100101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, wings, no, one, by, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, white are repeated.
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