This is an analysis of the poem To Flora that begins with:

When April woke the drowsy flowers,
And vagrant odors thronged the breeze, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaababacc dedefgfghhii hbhbjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 11010101 111100010 11010101 11100101 11011101 110101001 110010101 00010111 11111101 110011101 1100011101 01110111 11011101 111110011 111101010 11010101 110011010 11101101 0100101001 01010101 101111011 01010101 01010101 11010101 110111101 110101111 111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, in, you are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of To Flora;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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