This is an analysis of the poem The Daisies that begins with:
IN THE scented bud of the morning—O,
When the windy grass went rippling far, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB caca dbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0010100101 1010111001 11111101 00110101 101111011 1110100011 11111101 00100101 011100101 011100101 11111101 00110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of The Daisies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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