This is an analysis of the poem I Gather Motley Flowers that begins with:
I gather motley flowers
And braid, braid a garland,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd Xefa ddeb bggb fcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 111010 111 1101001 010110 1111 111 101010 010011110 011011 1001111 1011101 1100100011 1101101010 11111010 1010011 10010011 11000110 10111011 110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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