This is an analysis of the poem The Raspberries In My Driveway that begins with:

Nature will bear the closest inspection . She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bcbdbeeXfXgd abehiejkcbf ebbfbgb bfXbhk eabbe bddjXhikabj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,12,11,7,6,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010010101101111000101111111001 01 0110 0111 111 01 1010100 111 1111 01 1 1110 100 01 11101 11001 0111 11110 110 110 01 1101 111 111110 1101 1011 011 01010 0010 1010 110 001 1110 010111 1101 11 110110 0111 01101 110 0110 010 001 01111 101 11 11 1110 0111100 011101 010 110 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words always, too, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines owned is repeated).

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