This is an analysis of the poem Nature, For Nature's Sake that begins with:

White as white butterflies that each one dons
Her face their wide white wings to shade withal,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXb dedeff dgdggg ahahhh XdgdiX jgjgjj gigicc gigigg hahaaa giXiiX eieihh ikikll eXejmm bfbXgg ghgXee hjhjee Xchcnn ononhh jfjijX epepXX eqeqdX aaaaii khkXaa ocochh ihihhh cacaii gdgdjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011111 0111110110 10110101001 1101010101 1110011100 1101000100 11010100111 1101110101 11100111001 1111111101 11011110010 010011111010 1111010011 1101010001 0101101101 0111111101 0111010101 1011000111 1101001101 1001110111 0101011101 1011010111 0101110111 1111001111 1111011000 0101111111 1101000100 0111000101 1101110101 11010101010 1011000101 1001111101 1101001101 0101010101 0101011101 11001010001 0111010111 1111110001 11011101011 1101011101 11001010111 11000100101 0101011100 11000001001 01110010101 0101110101 11011110101 1101010101 1101011101 1001110111 1111110101 11110100101 1000100101 1001111101 11111101001 0111010111 11010100001 1011010111 0101010101 10110111110 110100101001 1011101101 1111011111 01000101001 1111011001 1100110111 0101011101 100111011 11001010011 1101010101 11001011001001 1101101101 1001010101 11000111000 1001011101 1111010101 1011001101 01011000001 1101110111 1101010100 1111011101 11000100101 11110100101 1100010111 0111111111 1111010010 11010111001 1001101100 10011101001 11010010101 1110110001 11010101001 11111100001 1101110101 1111000101 0101010101 1101111011 0111010101 0100110111 1001110011 0101100111 01001011001 1101110111 1011011111 1101110101 0111001111 1111111101 0101011101 0101011001 110100110 1001010101 11011100101 1101101101 11011101110 1101011101 0010100101 11010001101 1101010001 01110111100 1011111101 1011111101 1111000101 1101111111 1011101101 0101010111 1101111101 1101110101 11010101010 1101010111 01001011101 1101010111 11010110101 11110110101 0011010101 1011000101 011010101 010110010101 11010001101 1111100101 11111101001 1101000101 0111000101 1101010101 100110111011 1111110101 0101010111 10010010111 11110010001 1111010010 1101110011 0101010111 1101110101 0111010101 11010011111 1101111101 1001011011 11000010101 1111110011 1111101111 01011100101 01011101101 1011010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; white, they, ripples, her, of, to, and, waste are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, as, nor, shall are repeated.

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  • summary of Nature, For Nature's Sake;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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