This is an analysis of the poem The Flowers that begins with:
All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc cadd ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 10010101 10010101 1010101 1010101 10110111 1011101 1110101 1010111 1010101 1011111 1010101 1111101 1010111 1010111 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; fairy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fairy is repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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