This is an analysis of the poem To Hilda Of Her Roses that begins with:
ENOUGH has been said about roses
To fill thirty thick volumes;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb aXb caacXXXX Xcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,8,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010110 0110110 1111010110 11110001 101101001101 00010110 111110 00010111 111010101 01011 0100 1111 110100011 1101 010100 10101011010 0101111 0100101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; roses is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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