This is an analysis of the poem On The Reed (From The Greek) that begins with:
I was of late a barren plant,
Useless, insignificant,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1010100 11111101 01000101 11010101 11000101 01110011 01011101 11111101 11001101 110100100 101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
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