This is an analysis of the poem For Peace that begins with:
Flowers grow in the grass,
Baby footfalls pass ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbA ccXbA ddeeAffggA hhddA ggXbA XdfXA bbaaA iihhA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,10,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 10101 100111 100101 11 0110101 100101 10101001 010101 11 1101011 1100101 110111 0110101 11 101001010 10001010 0110101 100101 11 111001 111101 100101 1001001 11 111101 1011101 10111100 0101111 11 1011100 100101 1101101 11011000 11 1001101 010111 011101 111101 11 1100101 1110111 10100101 1010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word peace at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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