This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of Mandragora that begins with:
O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praise
Of life, and death, and immortality,-- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc adadd dedee fcfcb agagg dhdhh ibicc dadaa ijijj kfkff hahaa lXlfc dbdcc gdgdd dfdff mamaaXafaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010101 0111110100 01011100101 011100 1110001110101 0101001101 0101100101 11110010111 111111 1100011101011 11001111101 01010101101 1001011101 110101 100101111101 1010010101 0101110101 1101110111 111111 100101110100 1111011111 0101010101 1001011101 010100 101101010101 1101110111 1100010101 110110101 110101 110100011101 1100011101 0101011100 1101110101 110101 110101100101 1101010111 1101010101 11110010101 110001 0110001011101 001010101 1100010101 11110011001 110101 110101110101 11110001001 1101010001 0101111111 101101 110101111101 10110101001 0101010111 0011010101 110101 0111111110011 0110010101 0101010100 0110010101 01101 0111010111001 1111010101 1101100100 1111010001 110101 1111011101111 1101110101 1101010001 1101110101 011101 1111010111111 1100011111 1101010101 0111110101 110101 010111010101 1101110101 11001110101 1101110101 010111 11111110111 1100011111 1101111101 1101110111 010101 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, in, then, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, whose, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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