This is an analysis of the poem The Sensitive Plant that begins with:

PART 1.
A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabb ccbb ddbb bbbb eedX eeff aadd bbcc gghh XiXj jjaa khdd ddii iXaaa dibb jjff Xlcc bbmm mcee iXcc hhdd hhii Xljj mchh nngg lldd eebb bbbXb X ddjj llff ffoo ddid ppmm bbll llgg bbjj jjii iihk iiqq eebb Xdhh jjpp rrXl X cmdd bbaa oopp ddff eeggg llbb aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11 0100100101 1011100101 10100111001 1100101001 10010110101 1010011101 1110111111 100100101 11101011001 00100110100 10100100111 1010001001 010110100 010010111 1111101101 00110110100 10111010101 11000100101 1111100101 11101111000 101110001 1111111011 10100100101 110100101 10101101111 1100101101 01011001101 01111100101 10110100101 1010100101 1110100101 0100101111 1011101101 1010011101 1010011001 111110101 101001101100 010101111 1111001001 101100011 1101110010 1101010100010 010111101 1100100101 1101011000 1101011001 10100110111 00100111100 1010101101 11101001101 11011001101 11011001001 01101011001 1110100100 1101101111 10001011011 0101100101 1001000101 010111001001 110101101 11111110100 1101110100 111100101 11001011001 1100100101 1111100000 00110100101 1110111111 11111100101 10100111111 001101001001 01111011110 1110101010010 10100111110 1001101101 01101101101 001010110100 0111010001 1010010100 011101001 0010111101 01011111 110110101 100111011 100100101 001100111 110001010111 1101100101 111001001 0100100110 110110111 01100111011 11100101 1111100100 1010011101 10101000111 110110101 111001001001 101111101111 1011111111 1011100101 101101101101 0110010101 11101111001 011110100 1010101100 1011110111 110001001 01001001001 0100110100 10000001001 011100001 010110100 100100101 11 110100011 1100100101 10010011011 111000101 010010001 1111010101 110011001110 1011001001010 1001001010 101000110010 1010011111 110111001 1110100101 10100110101 1101101001 10101101101 1011101011 101010101001 10101011000 10101101100 0110100101 1111010001 1010110001 1101111001 1010010111 010100101 01011001001 1010110111 11101001101 0100100101 1111101011 0010101111 110110001 1110100101 11001001010 11001001010 1101100101 1010011101 00101001101 1101101100 1110111101 11001110001 11001001001 00011101 001001011101 010010111 1011011101 111011100 10110101000 11001011111 011001011101 10010100 110110001 1101100101 111010111 100100101 01010010001 111010100 101100100 110111111 11 1101000101 1110100100 101011100 11110100100 110101001 101001001 10100101011 1010010111 010110101 1010100101 101101011 110100101 01110100101 010110101 0110110101 1100111111 0101101111 1010011001 1111101001 110110101 011101101 110000101 1100100101 101011111 100100101 011110101 10110101 0100101111 10110100101 110010111 0101100111 1111101 01000101 1011101111 1100100101 110110111 110110101 1010110011 101110101 11111001101 110000100 0101100100 100111101 101010111 1010100101 1011110101 011100101 101011010110 1001011110 0101001101 11010101 1110101001 10101101011 1101101101 1011111111 11011101 1100110111 111110111 1010010101 10110110011 101100101 110011001111 101100111 1101000101 001001101010 11110101 1010100111 110111111 10101101101 11011010111 0100111101 1110111101 1110101111 1101000101 11100110 01100111110 1010011111 010011101 11010111 0010110101 010010101 1011110101 1010100101 01100111001 1100110111 110101101 110101101 1110101001 111010101100 0110110101 0110110101 111010001001 1011100101 1011010101 100100101 101110101 1110100001 11001001001 011010111 011100101 10100101011 11110101 1011110101 11110101 100100111 10101110001 1011110111 10111011011 110100101 1101110111 0100110101 1010011011110 1101011010 010 100100111 1010110101 101011101 11011101 10110101 11000101 11011111 11010101 11111001 01010011 11001111 11011001 00010111 10010100 01110110 11010100 11011101 11111101 01110101 11111111 11110101 10111111 01110101 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 79
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 315
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, of, as, it, her, at, they, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some, it, she, at, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, the, she, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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