The Lily Confidante by Henry Timrod: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Lily Confidante that begins with:

Lily! lady of the garden!
Let me press my lip to thine!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba ccbc debe fgbg dXbd ahbh bgig Xcic jkbk fgXg ejej gejX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100010 1111101 11101010 10101 11101010 1110101 10111010 11101 10101010 1110111 101010010 10111 10111010 1010101 10101010 001001 10101010 101000100 11101110 10101 10111010 1110101 11111010 11101 100100110 1010100 11101110 00101 1000101010 1010101 11111110 11101 100100110 0110101 11101110 11101 1011010101 0010101 11100010 11101 100111110 1110101 10111010 11011 100111111 0010101 10101010 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rose, her are repeated.

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  • summary of The Lily Confidante;
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