This is an analysis of the poem The Rue-Anemone that begins with:

Under an oak-tree in a woodland, where
The dreaming Spring had dropped it from her hair,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababacXac ddadadccXc aababaeeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011100111 01001110001 11010111101 0101111111 0111010111 0101100101 1100011101 1100101010 0111110101 1111011101 1111110101 011010101 01110101001 1001010111 100101011 0111010101 0101110101 1101100101 1001010100 1011010001 11010110101 1011011101 0101010101 1001011101 11011101001 0111011101 11010010101 1011110011 0101010101 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, all, of are repeated.

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