This is an analysis of the poem Mock Orange that begins with:
It is not the moon, I tell you.
It is these flowers ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XcXaX cXd eXbdaXXXX eeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101111 00110 1001 110 1101111 011 101101 101010 10111101 0101010 10010 01101 11010101010 1011 111111 0100011 01001010111 10110 1010110 11010 1111 111010 1101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 it, i, how are repeated.
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- summary of Mock Orange;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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