This is an analysis of the poem To A Very Tall Sunflower that begins with:
Gigantic flower with many golden faces,
Why climbest thou so very high in air?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd edcdd afaXf aXXdd eaeaa egegg hdhdd eieii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100101010 1101110101 11010101010 0101000111 11011111111 11111101010 11010100101 00010111010 0011110001 1101111101 101111010010 1101111001 110111010110 11011011001 1111110001 111101111010 1111111101 11110111010 1111010101 1111001111 11000101110 1101110100 11100101111 1111010111 1101011101 00011101010 0111110101 11010101010 0111110111 1111011011 01100101110 0111011101 11110111110 1111000111 1111101101 110111110110 1101010101 11010101010 111010111 0101010111 11110111110 1111010101 11111111010 1111010101 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, thy, i are repeated.
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