This is an analysis of the poem The Wood Of Flowers that begins with:

I went to the Wood of Flowers
(No one was with me):...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababA cbcXXbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010 11101 11101110 1110110 001010 111101 101101 101101 0110 111110 11010 001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, there are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word flowers at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Wood Of Flowers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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