This is an analysis of the poem Asking For Roses that begins with:
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master,
With doors that none but the wind ever closes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX cXcb XbXb dbdXXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110010110 01111011010 01110011010 010010011010 111110010010 110111010011 11111110110 111110111010 111110011010 10010011100 111110010110 110010110110 111011101011 110111110010 111011101101 11001111110 110110010010 1100101100110 0101000110010 110011110010 11110111010 110110111010 11111110010 111110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, ', and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word roses at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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