This is an analysis of the poem On Arranging A Bowl Of Violets that begins with:

I dip my hands in April among your faces tender,
O woven of blue air and ecstasies of light! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaabaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100111010 110011110001 11001101100010 11110100010011 1111110 1111010 0101110010001 01010100111010 0111110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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