This is an analysis of the poem To A Tulip-Bulb that begins with:
SLEEP first,
And let the storm and winter do their worst; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcXacddeecc ffgggcaachhiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1101110111 110101 100101 0111011 0111 101100 011101 101101 100111 111111 111111 110111 0011011101 1101010101 11 0101110111 010111 011101 110111 1011 111100 0100101 011111 110101 110111 110101 1100100 01110110111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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