This is an analysis of the poem Roses that begins with:
I entered dutiful, God knows,
The room in which I was to sit...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabaccc defdedfXX gdhgdghaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 01011101 01010101 01010101 01110100 11010101 110101111 11110101 11010101 11011111 11100101 11110101 11110101 01010101 11110001 01010101 01010100 11010110 1110101 111100001 10101101 11011101 11110011 11110101 11010111 01010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Roses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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