This is an analysis of the poem Ring Of Grass that begins with:

Rings of grass crowns of flowers they're gone gone gone gone
Furs that I woven of whispering hours gone gone gone gone...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbba aabba aaccXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101011111 111100100101111 110110111 10111101011 1111101 1111111 101110101111 1001011101111 110110111 10101111101 1111010111011111 10111011011111 100101011011111 1100100101 1011011001 10101111011 1011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gone is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Ring Of Grass;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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