This is an analysis of the poem To Daisies that begins with:

Ah, drops of gold in whitening flame
Burning, we know your lovely name -... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBccXBbdXeeff ggeeegddhdhghehe hhbXbgegagahahg diieXehdcffjfjdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,16,15,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 10111101 10110101 11111001 111111011 11011100 10110101 11110100 11111101 10010000 10110111 111100011 11011011 11010100011 1011101 01001 110010011 00100101 1111010101 110011101 11110010 01010111 01011100 1101 01110101 11010101 01011001 11110111 110111001 01110100111 01011111 01110101 1010111 01111100 0110100 11111101 1111111101 11110100101 11110111 11110111 11000111 01011101 1111111 01011101 0111 1101 10011111 10110111 11110101 1000 01111111 11010001 11111101 11110111001 11110 111111010 11110101 011101010 1100101101 01111101 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i is repeated.

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

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