This is an analysis of the poem How Fair, How Fresh Were The Roses ... that begins with:
Somewhere, sometime, long, long ago, I read a poem. It was soon forgotten
… but the first line has stuck in my memory-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XBX XcX XBX cXdbXeeXX XBX ecX XBX fXdcbeX XBX fae XBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,9,3,3,3,7,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111010011010 10111101100 1 11110010 1 101001111001010011 1010101011101001010110 111001100 1 11110010 1 1111101011000101010 1010010100010110100 100111011010101010 1110101011110001010 00011110111011110 11010001011101000010 1001110111101010 101111001100111111 0011110011111 1 11110010 1 110010110110010111 1010111010110010100 1011110101010011 1 11110010 1 111011101001101010011 0010110110101011001 10111101100110 11101010111011010 101010101010011101 1110011010010010101 0101101010001010100 1 11110010 1 0101011110111101 111111100111110010 010101100111 1 11110010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; in, her, and, how, of, my are repeated.
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