This is an analysis of the poem Only A Smile that begins with:
No butterfly whose frugal fare
Is breath of heliotrope and clove, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bbbb cdcd bebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 010100111 11010111 11111111 11111111 01110111 11010001 11010101 11111111 01110101 11000111 01111101 01010100 11111111 11110111 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had is repeated.
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