This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Rose And The Snowdrop that begins with:
The Snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers;
It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaabb abbbaabab ccddeeee Xccaeebbffee ggaahcchccgcciicX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,12,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01000100010 0111010101 11010010111 10010111010 0110010101 11010101010 1100010101 1101000101 10111010101 1001000111 1001011111 0111010101 1010110101 1011010111 100101111 100010010101 1011010111 11110011101 1111010011 0111011101 0111010001 1111001101 11010110101 1101000101 1100010011 1100010001 1101010110 0110110101 1011010101 11110011101 1010011110 0101010101 0101111101 11110101101 0101010101 0101010101 01010011001 11001100011 1001110001 0001011101 1101011101 10010101001 1101110001 1101010101 1011000101 01100010101 10011000001 10001110011 0011010101 10011000101 1101010101 1101010110 1101010101 0111110101 10110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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