This is an analysis of the poem The Autumn Cyclamen that begins with:

We are the ghosts of those small flowers,
That in the opening of the year,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaXacdcdececfcfcghghijijcecedbdbXdkdkckcfafadldljmgmabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101110 100100001 111011010 010101 11010111 010101001 010111000 010101 010111011 11011101 11110111 010001 010010101 010101011 11010101 110111 01011101 01010111 00110011 110001 0011100101 010111011 10110111 101101 01110101 10010100 01110101 111100 11110111 110010101 11110011 111000 11110101 10010001 00111101 110101 01101100 11110111 11010101 101111 01011111 11111101 110011001 011111 110011101 1001110010 11011101 1101010 01111101 10111101 110110111 011101 010010100 110100101 10010111 110111 110101110 10111111 110101010 0110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2042
  • Average number of words per stanza: 365
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.

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