This is an analysis of the poem Love And A Day that begins with:
In girandoles of gladioles
The day had kindled flame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbba CXCXXC ccddX X eaffea CXCXXC ccgXX X gefffe CXCXXC ccXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,1,6,6,5,1,6,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000100 011101 110010111 100110101 01110001 1100111 110100111 11111111 110100111 1101010 11010111 110101 01010101 10010101 11010111 11000001 1101010 1 010111111 011101 1100100101 11111101 0110100101 010101 110100111 11111111 110100111 1001010 11010111 110101 01010101 01010101 110011101 11011111 1001010 1 01111101 011101 1100100101 01011111 01111101 0100101 110100111 11111111 110100111 1001010 11010111 110101 11010101 11000101 01011101 11011101 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, said, to, love, woo, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word said is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', o are repeated).
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