This is an analysis of the poem To A Violet Found On All Saint's Day that begins with:
Belated wanderer of the ways of spring,
Lost in the chill of grim November rain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XdbX eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100001001 1001010101 1111010111 1100010111 1111010101 11000100101 1101010001 0101010101 1111010100 1111010001 0101110101 1111110101 0101010101 01000110101 1101111111 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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