This is an analysis of the poem Song: The Flowers Of The Spring That Enamel The Vale that begins with:

The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale,
Give their dyes to the meadows, their sweets to the gale,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100001101001 111001111001 0011010101101 01111001011 11001001001 110011011001 110111011110 111010010110 111010111001 101011001011 110011010001 01011011001 101001101001 01011101011 10001001001 11010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 796
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; their, so, it, like, from are repeated.

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