This is an analysis of the poem This Is A Blossom Of The Brain that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabX XbcX XdXd Xaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 000100010 0100001 11011100 0101000 11010010 110101 10010001 011001 10010101 010101 10010001 0101001 10011110 010001 01010101 010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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 author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of This Is A Blossom Of The Brain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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