This is an analysis of the poem The FlaÂNeur that begins with:

I love all sights of earth and skies,
From flowers that glow to stars that shine; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccabcbcaaaccababdefeefaabbbg afhhabhbfba iXiigjddklkkaal mchhccmc bblllbbhhbhknnkdadXjjkaajk liaalli abbooddXaaadd acaackaakkaaXkbjjbiibjkjiik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,11,15,8,26,7,13,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 010110111 01010101 110010101 110111001 11010101 10010101 10110101 11010101 110111001 11010101 01010001 11010101 010101001 11010101 01110001 01010111 110101001 11110001 010111010 01010001 010111010 101101010 10010010001 11010101 01010101 01110101 111000111 110010101 010101010 11110111 01010011 11010101 01010101 10011111 11110101 11010101 11010111 01111101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01110100 01010101 11010101 01010100 11000111 11011101 11010111 01010101 11011111 010101001 010010101 11110101 01010001 01010001 10010101 01110101 11110101 11010001 11010111 110110101 11110101 01110101 11010101 11011101 01110001 11110101 11111111 11011101 10111001 11010111 11110101 11011001 01111101 11111111 11110111 01011111 1101001011 1110101 11101101 01000111 11101110 11010101 11010101 101101001 01011101 11110101 11111111 11111001 01111101 11011110 01110101 10110101 11110101 01010101 11110101 11110111 10011111 01010001 11110101 010100101 11111111 11010101 01000100 101101010 111101010 111101110 11111101 11111101 10111101 110100101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11011111 110100101 010101001 11010001 11111101 01111101 110111001 11010011100 01010111 11010101 11011111 110000101 11110101 11111101 11110101 01011101 01110101 00100101 10111011 111101000 01010101 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 676
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, and, i, at, thy, new are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, and, thy are repeated.

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