This is an analysis of the poem A Lover's Envy that begins with:
I envy every flower that blows
Along the meadow where she goes, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba cXbbc ddbbdXaabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001011 01011111 110011100 110011100 010001 110100101 11011100 110011110 01011110 010001 110100101 11010111 11010110 10111110 010101 110111010 000101110 11010100 11010100 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; every, that, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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