This is an analysis of the poem A Reflection On Lawson's Poems that begins with:
Seasons bloom and seasons wither; dark or bright, they cannot last.
Must we try with floods of bitter teas to vivify the past?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccc ddd Xee aaa fff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101111101 111010101010001 101011101010101 1110100111111111 101010101010111 111111101010110 101010110010101 110010101011101 101110101001011 111011101010101 101110101011101 111110101110001 10111010101001001 111011101011101 101010011110101 111101101110111 101111101110001 101111101110111 1001101000110001 111011111110101 111011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, when, days, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words days, and are repeated.
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