This is an analysis of the poem Seed Pods that begins with:

Where the small heads of violets
are shrunk to smaller skulls, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcXcXdcddede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100 110101 01110101 011101 01010011 010001 11000101 010010 01000100 110100 010111100 010100 11010101 00100100 111100101 111101 11111111 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Seed Pods;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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