This is an analysis of the poem O Rose, You Blossomed In My Life that begins with:

O rose, you blossomed in my life,
When my world was young and gay,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb cdea dcef Xdbe Xgcd eeeg bheh XXee XXXf X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 1111111 1111011001 010011 11110101 10101 11110111 1111001 0100101 1010101 010111 10010111 101111 0010111 11110011 01101 11111100 11110 10101 110111 010011 1110101 10011111 110101 101111 10101001 10011101 101010 010111101 00001110 11111101 101010 100011 0101110 111101 110101 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in, my are repeated.

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