This is an analysis of the poem Two June Nights that begins with:

A red rose in my lady's hair,
A white rose in her fingers,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcdeX ededafafee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101101 0110010 01110111 0111010 01010101 0101010 01010111 1101010 11011101 11010101 01110101 1101010 01011101 01101010 01000111 11000010 11011101 1101010 11111001 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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