This is an analysis of the poem Lying In Grass that begins with:
Is this everything now, the quick delusions of flowers,
And the down colors of the bright summer meadow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacdefegbhcbdfieXeigggX h Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101101010010 101100011011 0111010011 001011001 101 0101101010100 01010010 1100101001001 001100010 10011001010 1011010010100100 1010100110 111011011 0010100 01010111010110100 011101 01011110 01010 11011100001101 10101 101010010010 11011100010 1101000110 11011010 011 010111 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, only, you, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, only, let, and are repeated.
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