This is an analysis of the poem The Rose that begins with:
It tossed its head at the wooing breeze;
And the sun, like a bashful swain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dadaeC cdXdXC fgfgcC ababec acaccX bhbhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 10110101 11010101 0010101 111100101 110010111 01011101 01101010 1100110111 11001010 111100100 110010111 0101101001 1100101 1100110100 010111 111100100 110010111 0101100111 111101 1101010101 10100101 11110101 110010111 1111011111 1110111 0101001011 1110101 0100100100 110010111 111100101 1110111 001010101 1010101 1011100101 10011111 1101100101 0110101 10110101 00100101 1110100100 010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Rose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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