This is an analysis of the poem Dandelions that begins with:
Welcome children of the Spring,
In your garbs of green and gold, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcdc beXX fgeg fada hbeb Xhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100001 0110111 1011111 1010111 1011101 0010111 1110111 0110101 0010111 1010101 1110111 1010111 1010101 1110111 1110101 1010001 1000111 1110101 1010001 1001101 0110101 0011101 1111100 10111110 1010100 0111101 0110011 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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- summary of Dandelions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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