This is an analysis of the poem A Mayapple Flower that begins with:
What magic through your snowy crystal gleams!
Your hollow spar, Spring brims with fragrancy;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabc bcdadaeae fgfghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 11010110100 1101010101 01111100100 1100011001 11110000100 1001011111 11010101001 1001100101 010010101001 0101010101 0101001101 1101000101 1001100100 1001000101 1101110101 0001010101 0100010111 11000111100 0101000101 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; with, you, of are repeated.
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