This is an analysis of the poem Recollection that begins with:
THROUGH the blue shadowy valley I hastened in a dream:
Flower rich the night, flower soft the air, a blue flower the stream ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110010110001 1010110101011001 11010011100101 10101110110101 101010111010101 111101011101101 1111011110001 10010101010101 10101111110111 011011101101 1110110110101 0011110010101011 111110110101011 0010010110100111 1001101011011001 1111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 980
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; flower, i, and, are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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