This is an analysis of the poem The Secret Rose that begins with:

FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccaaddeeffccggaaaaXfhhiiaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11110101001 011011001011 111001010 1001110101 1100010111 0111110001 1111011101 01010101011 0011010111 1011110101 01010110101 11100111111 1111001101 1011101101 1101110101 1111011011 1101011101 1011010001 1011011101 11001110111 10111100011 1111101111 11111101000 0111010101 01001101000 11101111101 0101011101 01001110111 1101010101 10111001011 10110111111 11110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1408
  • Average number of words per stanza: 266
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; in, and, of are repeated.

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

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