This is an analysis of the poem As If Some Little Arctic Flower that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXXXXXbaXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101101010 0101010 110010101 010101 01000100 0100010 01110100 110101 111001010 0101010 11110 101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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