This is an analysis of the poem On A Tuft Of Grass that begins with:
WEAK, slender blades of tender green,
With little fragrance, little sheen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccdeed ffecge hhijji bbcjjg hhakka aaakka Xjkhhk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 11011101 111101111 11001100 11011101 11000011 101111101 11110111 00011101 01111101 1111001001 111111001 11111101 11010001 010010101 11011100 01011111 11101101 11110111 11010101 11010101 101001101 01011101 11111101 11111111 11010011 11111111 11011101 11010100 11001111 11110111 01000101 11111111 010111011 11010101 11010111 11010111 11010101 01011111 10010101 01010111 010111110 111101110 11010101 11110111 11110101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; nor, and, more, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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