This is an analysis of the poem Song To The Lily Of The Valley that begins with:
Lily of the valley, this brief poetic sally
At the very least is due unto thee.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbAC adedF adgdF ahghF aiXiFXadedAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100101010 1010101101 110111011010110 1100010101 100010101010 0010101011 1000101111010 10100110011 0011101011101010 101001101 1000101100 1000101101110 01100010101 11001101101010 110110101 1000101100 1000101101110 111110111 1010001011010010 101101111 1000101100 1000101111010 111111111 1001011110001 1110110001 1000101100 1000101111010 111110001 111111000101110 011010111 100010101010 0010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lily is repeated.
The author used the same word lily at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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