This is an analysis of the poem To My Class: On Certain Fruits And Flowers Sent Me In Sickness that begins with:
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011111 01000101001 11010010111 0011010101 10001010101 11001010111 1111010111 110011001001 1101010001 1101010100 011100111001 01111111001 0101000111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; if, of are repeated.
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