This is an analysis of the poem Poppies that begins with:
These are the flowers of sleep
That nod in the heavy noon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabA cdadc eXaXe ebabe afafA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1100101 1011101 00101101 1101001 1101101 1110111 0011111 1101101 1011101 1101111 1101000 1111111 110111 1010111 1100101 0100111 1010111 0101101 1110111 1100111 1111101 1111101 1101001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 Poppies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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