This is an analysis of the poem La Flor Del Salvador that begins with:

The Daffodil sang: “Darling of the sun
Am I, am I, that wear... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX abbcc aaaa ccdcd eeXXXcbffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,5,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110001 111111 010100 01001010101 111011 110001 1111110111 011101 011111 1101010101 111101 11010111101 1100111101 1101001 1111110101 0100011111 1111011101 1001110111 1111 111011 1011110100 101100 1101 10101010101 1011110101 101101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; not, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words spake, and are 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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