This is an analysis of the poem The Rose that begins with:
The last days of August…. Autumn was already at hand.
The sun was setting. A sudden downpour of rain, without thunder or...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc dc ec dXf a a gc Xce ch Xb ii ea jej e X X ec gh kkXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,3,1,1,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,1,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010101011 01110010100101101 1011110010111 010010011111100 100011101001 111010100010110010 1001010110100010 1111101110001111100 11100010111110100110 0101111010 1111111101000101101 110101011101 111111010011101011 1011111111 1110011011010101101 10010101010011110 101 111010111111001111 01011010 1100110101110001110 1001011010100101 1111111101111001 1111010 0111101110011111 111011000100100101 110110111011010 1111011100001101 01 11110111 11011111001 111101000101 11010101101000100 010 1111111101100011 101000101 11101011110101010 111011101100 11111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, she, i, had, her, 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 words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Rose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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