This is an analysis of the poem Enigma With Flower that begins with:

Victory. It has come late, I had not learnt
how to arrive, like the lily, at will,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXbXXaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001111111 1001101010 0110110 0100010001 101111 1010111 001110101 10010011001 1110110010 1010010 0100100101 1001001 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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