This is an analysis of the poem What Was Told, That that begins with:
What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX Xb aX cX Xb cX acXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110011101011 011011 1110101101 1111 100101001001101 1011110 110001000010100 100110 110110101000101 1010110 1010111111011000 1011001 0111110110101 10010101 0100101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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