This is an analysis of the poem To Blossoms that begins with:
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccb abbddb aeeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 111111 110111 11111101 011101 1111 101100 1101101 110101 11010111 100111 1111 11110111 111111 111111 11011111 110111 0001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To Blossoms;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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