This is an analysis of the poem Three Verse Passages From A Prose Meditation that begins with:

On verdurd trees ye silver blossoms grow
Whose leaves atop their perfect whiteness show...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabb cccddXX cccXeXddeefff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101101101 101010101 01011011101 0111011011 0111110101 1011110101 0111100011 01101101 1011010101 0111010101 100010101 1111010101 0111010111 0111010011 11110101010 0101110101 111011101 1111010101 1101011111 1101000101 1111000101 1101010101 1111010001 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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