This is an analysis of the poem After Paul Verlaine-Iii that begins with:
SPLEEN
Around were all the roses red,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab ab cc cc dcXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 01010101 01010111 11110111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11111111 10100101 111100101 11000111 01010101 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 57
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; too, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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