This is an analysis of the poem Sympathy With Stone that begins with:

Blood-red the lily, and the questing horn
Shrivelling in silence;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX dedeaaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 100010 100011101 1001100 011101010101 1100 110011 11010011111 1101111101 0101110001 1111010101 111010111 0101010011 1100111101 1101111101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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