This is an analysis of the poem My Strawberry that begins with:

O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause
To reckon thee. I ask what cause ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbaaaaeeffXXggddddhhaaiiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 01011111 11110101 11011111 010111111 11010111 11110101 10010111 11110111 01110101 11111111 10010101 11010011 010011001 11111101 01011111 11010101 010010011 10011101 101101000 11011111 11010111 11111101 011000011 11111101 110111001 11011101 01111011 11011111 01111101 11111101 01000101 11011111 010100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 230
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

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