This is an analysis of the poem Rosa Rea that begins with:

The following was suggested by a sweet little
lyric, entitled 'Resolution,' translated from the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb cccc dcdc dede fgfg hchc hbdB cbXb XeXe abab gbdB dbdb cihi Xcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101010110 10010100001000 10010 01000101 110101 11010011 011101 01110101 101101 01010101 010101 11011111 110111 11111101 0100111 10110101 101101 010011101 1011111 01111111 010001 01011111 110111 11110101 011111 11010101 1001101 010010101 101111 01110111 110101 010011110 010101 01110111 110101 11011111 010101 11110101 110111 11011111 011101 01010101 1001101 11110111 111111 11011101 110111 11011101 100111 10011111 111111 11010110 111111 111001101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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; to, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, two, a, not are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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