This is an analysis of the poem Wild Flowers that begins with:

Content Primroses,
With hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXadcdefXeg hhXdhhddiiaiabjjbjkklmmiiggleamaeiiimeddiie ennbbefoolacccXjjiill
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,43,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 01110111011 1010010101 11110001101 10100 1110011001010 11110100111 1001 10111 1001011101 10110100 0 11111 111111101 10101010 010100010 101100 01001101 110001110 1110101010 10001101 11010111 1010101 1110011 1111101 1110001 11010001 1110001 10011101 1011111 1111111 0010111 1011111 10011101 0110100 0001 1010111 1010011 1010011 1010001 1011110 1110101 1110100 10101001 1011101 1010101 0111111 1011101 1010001 1011101 1110101 1110111 1010111 1010100 1010111 1111101 1111111 1111111 1011101 1010101 1110011 0010101 1110011 1110100 10100010 10100010 01010101 0110111 1010101 1000101 1001001 1111101 1111011 1111111 1110001 11010101 110100101 00111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 217
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, their, your, for, die, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, pass, where are repeated.

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

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