This is an analysis of the poem To A Mountain Daisy that begins with:

Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXa bbXbbb cccaca ddXXdX dddede dddbdb dddXdX XXXfXfXbbbaba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 111011010 11111001 1101 01110111 111 01011101 0110101 10110101 1101 11010101 0101 11010101 01110101 11001101 0101 11010101 1101 010101101 11011111 11010101 1111 010111 0101 10110101 1110111 11110101 0101 11011011 1111 10010101 11000101 11010001 1101 11111101 1101 10010101 11110101 10010101 0101 11011111 11110 110100101 11011111 11011101 0101 11010111 1101 11110101 11011101 1110101 1111 11010101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; thy, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word such at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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