This is an analysis of the poem Of A Family Of Reformers that begins with:
Push the bursting buds away,
Throw aside the ripened roses,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcCcaa dedecccaa fefecCcaX bgbgcccaa dhdhcccaa fificCcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10101010 1011101 10101100 0010101 111 111 111101 111101 1010101 10101010 1110101 110101110 1000101 111 111 111101 111101 11010101 110111010 01000111 110111110 1010101 111 111 111101 110111 0101011 011101010 10110001 010101010 01110101 111 111 1011101 111101 01001101 010101010 00110101 01011111 01010111 101 111 111101 111101 01010011 010101110 010101000 0101010010 1110101 111 111 111101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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