This is an analysis of the poem Roses And Rue that begins with:
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure,
Were it worth the pleasure,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CCdD eecc eeee ffee ggaa aadd hhee eecc iidd ddjj kkdd hhff XXee dDCC llhhXccgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010 001010 1101111 111011 101001101 1101 111011001 00101 10101101 11101 11101101 001001 111101000 11010 1110101 00111 11110111 11101 1100100 11111 11101101 10111 1010110010 11010 1011010010 11010 101011011 10101 1010110111 111111 111001001 101011 1010110110 1011110 10101101 1111 10101101 10111 1110101 00111 1010011 01101 1110101 00101 10100011 111011 1011101 11001 11110101 10101 01110101 101001 10110101100 11101 11110101 01111 11101001 00101 101001101 1101 101111 11111 00101011 1111 1111111 10111 00101001 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, you, break are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same words could, and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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