This is an analysis of the poem Flower God, God Of The Spring that begins with:

FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXbcbcXddbXcbaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001100100 111001100100 1110010 11101101 10110010100100 0111001100100 011010011 10100100 111001101100 111001100100 1110110 11111100 111001100100 111001101001 1110010 11100100 1110001100100 111001100100 1111110 11101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 816
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; spring, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words spring, she are repeated.

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