This is an analysis of the poem Flowers that begins with:

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bXbX cdcd aeae fgfg fhfh egeg fefe fafa fifi ejej baba gege eeeeXaiai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101110 111010101 11101011110 110110011 11101111100 101001101 11101010100 101011110 1011101110 111001101 111001100101 101010001 11100011010 1011001101 1010011010 0110111010 1010101110 1010111001 0011101010 101000111 10100001110 101000101 10010111010 111010001 10111001011 101000101 10100101010 101010011 10101111110 1011001110 1010011010 100110010 1010111110 1110110101 10111011010 111010101 1010110010 101010101 1010111010 001000101 1010111110 101011101 0010101110 101010101 1010011010 111011101 1010101110 101010101 0010001010 00101110010 1000110001 1100101010 0110110110 1001111111 1011101010 101110101 1011100010 101110101 1001111010 100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, in, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stars, not, in, emblems are repeated.

    The author used the same words not, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Flowers;
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