This is an analysis of the poem The Beauteous Flower - Son Of The Imprisioned Count that begins with:

COUNT.
I KNOW a flower of beauty rare,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b bb bcd c e fe faa g h h ah aff g a f ff fii i d j hj hkk d a f gf gbb l X a ba bmm X a a fa fkk l a f ef ell i a f bf bbX X c kc kkk a a ba bcc X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110100101 111101 01011101 011101 11010101 11111100 1101011 10010111 111101 11100101 0101101 10110011 10010111 1101111 01 11011101 110111 11010101 110101 11010101 010100101 1110110 1 11010101 111111 11110111 110111 11010101 111101011 1101010 010 01010101 110101 11011111 011101 01110101 10110101 1101010 1 01111101 110101 111101001 110111 01111101 010010111 1111010 01 11010111 010101 110001101 110101 11010101 10110111 1101010 1 01011111 0001001 01110101 100101 11110111 01110101 0001010 0100 11110011 111101 11011111 111101 010111110 011111110 0111110 1 01011101 110111 11111111 011101 01110011 01110111 1101011 01010101 110101 111100101 110111 11110101 1110011011 1101110 11010111 110101 11000101 011101 11110101 1001100111 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 57
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 48
  • Average number of words per stanza: 9
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words i, the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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