This is an analysis of the poem The Grass So Little Has To Do that begins with:
The Grass so little has to do –
A Sphere of simple Green – ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbcded cbbd Xbed XfAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 010101 01010101 110101 11110101 010101 11011001 110101 11011111 110111 0100110 110100 11010101 010101 11010101 1100100 11010101 110101 01110101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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