This is an analysis of the poem Roses that begins with:
I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,
For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbddcXccccceXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010110001 1111010010101 1111010010010 00111101111001 11 1111110110101 1111010010111 1101010011111 101111001101000 1 10011101100101 11101011010101 11111101110101 01010100101001 01100101011001 1011101010011100 1 1001010010011 1111010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 908
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of Roses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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