This is an analysis of the poem To My First Born that begins with:

Fair tiny rosebud! what a tide
Of hidden joy, o’erpow’ring, deep,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff fgfhii gchcjj dkdkhh flflaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01011001 01010101 11111111 01011111 11111101 11110111 01110101 11001101 01010101 10010101 11111101 11111101 001101010 11110111 010101001 11111101 11011101 111111110 01010101 01110101 11010001 01011101 010111001 11110111 10111101 11010101 01001101 11010101 10110111 11111101 11011101 00111101 110101001 10010011 10110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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