This is an analysis of the poem The Rose And The Desk that begins with:

I know that flowers never fall out of open windows by themselves. Especially not at night. But that's beside the point. Anyway, the red rose suddenly...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010110101010101001111101011010111001011110101001110001011101110110110101011001001110011000110111111101 111110011011001100110010101100100111110110101010100101101011111100101101101101101101101011011111010011101110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 888
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 2
  • Average number of symbols per line: 444 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 82
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Rose And The Desk;
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