This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend Who Sent Me A Box Of Violets that begins with:
Nay, more than violets
These thoughts of thine, friend!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdefbdXee bd afegXfXhXXabhXXXXhXieXgjeX XbXjdaibahafXX XdgfhbbeccjXfi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,26,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 11011 101101 11010 111100 1000100 11100 110101 01110 1101001 101001 1010010 10110 11010 010111 01010 010010 010011 10110 01010 10010 10111 11010 1010010 10010 10011 1101010 1100100 10110 11100 100100 11110101 1010010 001010 1001 01111 10011 10010 11010 11010010010 111 1011010 100100 0100100 01110 100101 11110 11110 1101 10010 101101 010100 11100 101001 110101 01010 010001 01011 10110 01010 01111 101101 0100100 1110110 10010 1110 1000100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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