This is an analysis of the poem Blue Roses that begins with:
Roses red and roses white
Plucked I for my love's delight.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbaa XXcc ddaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1111101 11101110 11100110 1011101 1011101 1011011 1010111 1111100 1110111 1000101 1000101 0100101 1111111 1111101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; roses is repeated.
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