This is an analysis of the poem The Rose that begins with:

Nay EDITH! spare the rose!--it lives--it lives,
It feels the noon-tide sun, and drinks refresh'd... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeeafgacaX cfahedacfdXeeiXh jiklfchclbfbchdcahkdaeX jXbjhcmacakgcXchjhdbaecmjciXmkacbjciahjckacbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,16,23,45,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0101111101 0101111101 1100110101 01010111011 1101100100 1111010101 1111010101 1111011101 10010101011 01010011111 1111000101 10011101000 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111011100 1101011101 1001100111 1101011101 1101010101 010011101001 1101110101 1111010111 1011000101 1101011101 0101010110 01110111000 01001010111 1111011101 11010011100 01001110101 10101010100 1011111101 1101110111 1011001100 1100110111 0100010100 1001011101 0111011101 1101011101 0101011101 1011011101 1101011101 10010101011 01010011101 11100100101 0101011101 0101010111 0101011111 0111110111 110001 1101 1111110001 1101010101 1101010111 110111100 0111000101 110101 0101 1101010101 1011110100 0101111101 1101011101 0011010101 111100101000 1001111101 1001011100 11010101010 1100010101 1101011101 1100110101 1001011011 01001010101 0101010101 11010011101 11110100110 11000101001 101101110010 0101110101 10010010011 01010011101 1101111101 1101011111 11010011101 01001 111111 010111001010 01010011101 0111010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111110001 11110111110 01001110101 1110110111 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1032
  • Average number of words per stanza: 186
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, in, her, that, there, they, and are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Rose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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