This is an analysis of the poem The Last Chrysanthemum that begins with:
Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dedX afaf gXgXXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111 1101001 1001010101 1101011 10110101 1001111 11111101101 100110 01111101 100111 1011111101 111100 11010101 110101 1001101100 110100 10010101 100100 1101110001 101101 11100101 110101 1001110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Last Chrysanthemum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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