This is an analysis of the poem The Black Wallflower that begins with:
I found a flower in a desolate plot,
Where no man wrought,—by a deserted cot,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcbbbcccccX ddccaa eeffggXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010001001 1111100101 1111011101 1101101101 1101001001 0111110011 11010100101 1011111101 0110111001 0011010101 1101010011 1111011101 1101011101 11110101111 0001011101 10010111010 01110101110 1101011111 1101011101 1001001101 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101001101 00010101101 0011010101 11110111111 1101111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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