This is an analysis of the poem To Carnations: A Song that begins with:
Stay while ye will, or go,
And leave no scent behind ye:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1111011 111111 0111111 011101 110011 111111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye is repeated.
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