This is an analysis of the poem Flower O’ The World that begins with:

Dawn on the fills, and in the quickening skies
In flooding splendor lies! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXaa XeXaaeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011001001 010101 1111010101 100101 1101010101 100101 01010010101 0101 111111 0101011111 110101 1001010101 1101010101 010101 10010010101 1101010101 1001010001 1100101 11011100110 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, and are repeated.

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