This is an analysis of the poem A Red, Red Rose that begins with:
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb caca XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111010111 110101 11101010 110101 11111101 110111 11011111 110111 11011111 1011101 1011111 1011111 11111101 111101 11010111 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, and are repeated.
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