This is an analysis of the poem Poppies that begins with:
The gay day is ablaze… And in the languid grass
The poppies’ patches burn like impotent desire…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011001100101 0101011100010 111101110101 1101011111110 011001111101 0101011001110 11000011101 1101001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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