This is an analysis of the poem To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time that begins with:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbbbcXddcceeffggbbhhaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110111 1111110101 10010000101 0101110101 11110111001 1111010111 01010100101 1011110100 1111110111 1110010111 0111011101 01010100101 1111111111 0101101101 1111110111 0111010011 0111011001 1101011111 1101010111 1100110111 1101011111 1111011101 101110101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1065
- Average number of words per stanza: 206
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rose, and, come, near are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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