This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Flowers that begins with:
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbddee ffbbee gghhaa bbiidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010111010001 01011101111111 10010001010111 11000101100101 01010111100101 10011101110101 1101001110110111 01011101010100 011110110101010 110011010011001 010101111010101 11010101010101 011010100110101 1010110101010101 110101011010001 1010110101010101 1101001110110111 101001111010111 11110111111101 01010101011101 101010101110111 11000101010001 011101010110111 11010001110111 11110110010101 01110111110111 001111101010101 11111110110111 11100111111101 110111001100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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