This is an analysis of the poem The Metamorphosis Of Plants that begins with:

THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union
Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bc de df gh bb Xa bc ie Xh bX eX jX kd Xa Xh ia Xk kk jX be XX kc Xc kX ak ac df dh bX Xk bk gh ie da de kX bk bf jaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010110010010 10010011001001 100111101110010 1111010001001 110001011111010 11010010101001 101001011011110 10011011101001 1001101110110010 1111011001011 1001001001111010 11010011001001 1001001010010010 10010011001001 1010001001010010 10010011001001 1111111010110 11010111011001 101100101010010 10011011010001 1110100010110100 11010101101101 101010010111100 10110111001001 111001101001111 10100011001011 101100011011010 11010111001001 1110100010110010 10110011101001 10111101010110 11010011001000 1110100010010010 10010011001001 101001001100010 11010111001101 1101001010010010 1010011010001 1011011010011110 10010011001001 1001001011111110 10010111101011 101001010010100 11010011011001 11101010110110 100100110110100 1001111111011010 10010010010101 101001001101000 1010011001101 1101010001010010 11111011001001 10010101110010 10010011101001 1010010011010110 11110111110001 1001001100011110 10100011010101 11101010010010 11011111001101 1101001110111010 110111110101111 1101011111010110 1010111001111 1001101100011010 1001011011001 1011101001010010 101010110101011 101111001010110 101101111001001 1110111110010010 1010111001001 11100101010110 111011111011 10010110110110110 10010011001101 110100011111010 10010011101101 10010011011011010 10010011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.

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

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