This is an analysis of the poem Country Charleston that begins with:
Tulip bulbs and bulbs of tulips tulip petals
rose petals ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaXXbbccddXccbbcaeee XccXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010 110 10101010101 10111010 101010 101110 1010111 01110110 11101010 1110110 11 1010001 10011011001 001111001 1101 000100010100 11011001 111101010 11110110 111011001 01010101010 0100 0110100010 0100 01110110 1101 1100001 11111 11101010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; farmers', seen, this, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words farmers', who, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines petals, basses, bugle, now are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase faces connects the lines.
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