This is an analysis of the poem The Primrose that begins with:
Ask me why I send you here
This sweet Infanta of the year?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 01100001 1111101 011110001 1010011 01011101 11101011 11011101 1110101 11010111 10101010 110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of The Primrose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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