This is an analysis of the poem Wayside Flowers that begins with:

Pluck not the wayside flower,
It is the traveller's dower; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcXddeeffeeaccaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 0001001 010101 010110 1101010 0101010 010101 0100101 1101101 011101 010111 110101 0101010 010101 010101 1101110 0001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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