This is an analysis of the poem The Buried Flower that begins with:

In the silence of my chamber,
When the night is still and deep,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dede afgf Xchc hdid Xjaj hklk dmhm gcgc gjXj cncn ioao ichc gece ikck alil pjcj hcjc dqdq lcrc ighg fkfk aefe ichc scac ijfj aefe Xmlm hlhl ksfs iqpq Xkik hsjs ccjc cchc jjgj ghXh lhgh dsss cldl kljl rcdc skkk Ikak fjfj ahgh lhjh Ibjb Xeie fcic Xdcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100110 1010111 10101010 100011 11101010 1111101 10011010 1010101 10101010 00111001 11101010 1010101 10101010 1011101 10101010 1011101 10101110 0111101 10101010 1100101 101001110 1110111 11101010 1011101 111010110 1010111 11101110 1000100 111010111 1011101 10101010 00111001 10101111 1010001 10101110 1010101 10101110 0011111 10101010 1010001 11101110 1010101 10111010 1011101 10001010 1110101 11111010 1010101 11111110 1010111 111000011 1011001 11111001 01100111 10101010 1110111 10110010 1000101 10101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 11101010 1010101 10111010 1011101 11101010 11101011 11111010 11110001 11101011 1010101 11101110 1011001 10111010 00100101 10101110 1110001 10101110 0110001 11100010 1000101 10101010 10011101 101010010 0011111 11111010 00100001 11101010 1010101 11100110 1001111 11111010 1111111 10111010 1001101 11101010 1010001 100101010 1011101 11110110 1010101 11110110 0010101 10111010 1111101 101001010 1010101 10111010 10101001 10101110 1010001 10101010 1010101 10101010 0010001 10101010 100001001 10111110 1010001 11111010 1110001 00111010 00100001 11101010 0010101 11111110 1111111 111001110 1011101 11111011 1010001 11101110 1110101 111110011 10110011 10101010 1110101 11101110 1010101 10111011 1011101 10101110 1000101 11101110 1110101 10101110 1010111 101000010 1010101 10010010 10010101 10111011 10100101 11101010 0010101 10111010 1011101 11101010 0010011 11101110 0111101 11111011 1010111 11111110 1110111 11111010 0010111 100111010 1110101 100111010 10011101 10111010 01111001 10111010 1010001 10101010 1010101 100111110 1010111 11101010 1111111 10011010 1011101 101010100 1010101 11101011 1110101 10111010 1111101 10111011 0111101 10111110 1011111 10001010 0011101 10101110 0110111 10101010 1111101 10111010 1010101 10101010 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 51
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • 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; o, of, and, all, i, ye, my, thou, wert, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, all, she, and, where, what are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, love, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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