This is an analysis of the poem The Blossom that begins with:
LITTLE think'st thou, poor flower,
Whom I've watch'd six or seven days,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcCdd efefcCgg ffffeeee cecehhee hfhfccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110 11111101 111111110010 1011100101 1111110101 1011 1001101111 01011101111 101111 110010101 11110010101 0010010101 11001011101 1011 1101010111 1001110101 1111000 10011011 0101111101 1111011101 1101111101 10010 01111111001 0111011111 111111 11111111 0101011111 0001010101 1111111101 1111 1011011101 1111111101 110101 10111111 11011111001 1011110011 1110110111 1011 1001011111 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and, your, know, you are repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Blossom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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