This is an analysis of the poem Flood-Tide Of Flowers that begins with:

IN HOLLAND
The laggard winter ebbed so slow... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcbc ddada eeaea bbXbf ffgfg cXccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 010101011 01011101 01100111 01010111 010111001 11010111 01010001 11010101 110100101 11011101 11010101 01010101 01011111 11010011 01010111 010101001 01010001 010101101 01110101 10010101 01000101 11011101 11010101 011010101 11010101 01011101 01010100 110010101 01110101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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