This is an analysis of the poem To The Dandelion that begins with:
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababbaa cdcdcbbaa eXafaXggg hdhdhccii ajajejjdd fgfgfcckk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010110101 1001010101 1101001 1101110101 110101100011 1101000111 11011101 1101111101 1101010110 1111110101 10010101001 110011 0101010101 1011011101 0111010101 11110101 0101110111 0101010001 1111011100 0111100101 011101 1001111111 10110101001 1011011100 00111101 0101001111 0011110101 1110111101 0111010101 110101 0101010101 0111000101 1100010101 10010101 1111100101 1111101111 11010011101 0101110101 100111 0101110111 1101010100 1010111101 010101111 11001010101 11110110101 1101001101 1111111101 110101 11000100101 1101010101 01011110101 01110111 1001100101 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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