This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Blue-Bells that begins with:

Came a bouquet from the city,
Fragrant, rich and debonair -... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cded fghg ibib hjhj iddX kkeX jihi adhd ebcb hkXk Xhaj hdXX cjXj XdfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010 1011101 10101100 10011101 10101010 1011111 10101110 1010101 00101011 1010101 10101011 1011011 10101010 1010101 10011010 10101111 11101011 1000101 10111010 1011101 10111010 1001101 11111111 1010111 11111011 1100101 11111011 11111001 11101110 1011110 10101110 1011101 10111110 1110101 10101011 1011111 11101010 1111101 10101010 1011111 10111011 1010101 10101110 1010101 11100111 1010111 10101010 1110101 10100011 1110111 11101010 1011011 10101010 1110101 10101010 0011111 101100010 1110111 10101110 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of The Wild Blue-Bells;
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