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

The rose has flushed red, the bud has burst,
And drunk with joy is the nightingale...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcbc addaddd effedfd ddddgdg hddh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110111 110100100 110100111 1100100110 1011010101 010100101 111101011001 11101101101 011100101 111101111 1010110111 101010010101 0110101101 10110101111 011110101 1110101001 1101111001 110011101 10010111101 10110100101 0010110111 1101101001 1010110111 1111100101 00100100101 111101001 0111101011 111100101 1011100111 1110100101 110111101 0101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, thee are repeated.

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

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