This is an analysis of the poem Under The Rose that begins with:
He told a story to her,
A story old yet new... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb XcXc aded Xfbf Afff ggXg XhXh adid Ajfj Xhfh XkXk fjejXAiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000 010111 11000101 110101 0111010 1010101 11010111 110111 0101010 0100101 01100101 110111 1100010 0101101 10010111 010001 1101000 010101 11000101 110111 0101011 101111 010111101 100101 1001010 110101 10010111 110001 0101010 111101 11010011 110111 1101000 010111 11000101 111101 1101110 0101101 11010001 010011 1101110 010001 11011101 010101 1111110 111111 11010101 111011 1101000 010111 11010101 1011100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Under The Rose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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