This is an analysis of the poem Cretonne Tropics that begins with:
The cretonne in your willow chair
Shows through a zone of rosy air,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcc ddeeddcfbbggXddacacfbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001111 11010101 01010101 01111101 11110001 110101010 01101101 10110111 100011101 10010101 11110111 11110101 111101011 10010011 10010101 111101000 11110101 010111001 111101010 110101110 10010101 110010101 11011001 111 10111 01010101 11110100 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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