This is an analysis of the poem With Wild Flowers To A Sick Friend that begins with:

Rise from the dells where ye first were born,
From the tangled beds of the weed and thorn,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddddeedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100111101 0010100111 110100111 110101101 101101001001 111010011001 1110101111 1101011001 0100110101 1101100101 110101101 001011110 0010111111 0010110101 11111111101 0100101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 726
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of With Wild Flowers To A Sick Friend;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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