This is an analysis of the poem To The Painted Columbine that begins with:

Bright image of the early years
When glowed my cheek as red as thou,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh ifif jeje fkfk kgkgXfhfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11000100 11111111 11110111 01111101101 11000101 10010101 11010111 0101111111 01011101 01111101 10111101 1101011111 11011101 11110001 11110111 0101110101 11010111 10111111 11110101 1101010101 100110101 01010101 1100011001 0101011101 11011101 11010101 11010011 1111000101 11111101 11110111 110100101 11001110011 11111101 11011101 111101101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, of are repeated.

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