This is an analysis of the poem 'The Rose Family' Song 1 that begins with:

O flower at my window
Why blossom you so fair, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdEXEFDF bdcdcXgXEFDF egXgcXXXEFDF XXcccdEdEFDF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 110111 0111101 1000111 1110010 011101 0101010 101011 110110 11011 011101 111101 1100011 011111 1111100 011101 1110010 111101 10111110 01101100 110110 11011 011101 111101 1101010 110101 1101010 110011 11010010 1010111 110111 10011110 110110 11011 011101 111101 1111110 110101 1101010 010100 1101110 0010111 0101010 111111 110110 11011 011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, why are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word within at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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