This is an analysis of the poem Matilda Gathering Flowers that begins with:
And earnest to explore within--around--
The divine wood, whose thick green living woof... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdX efd fgf gaX ada Xgd ghX hdh did Xji jfj feX eke kdkXdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010101 0011111101 1001100111 1011010101 0111100101 11110100101 0101101101 1101011101 0111000100 01011000 1101111100 0101010101 1011110001 1101110111 0100010111 0011010101 1001010111 1011001100 1101011001 011011101 110100101 1111010111 1101001111 0111110101 1101110111 1001011111 0101010100 1101100101 1110110101 0100110001 1111110001 0101110101 0101111101 1110111101 101111010 0101010111 1111110101 1100110100 11001111111 0101010111 101100101010 0101110110 11010111010 0111000101 11100101110 010111111 0101011111 1111000101 1100110101 110010111101 11001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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