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

On Brady's tower there grows a flower,
It is the loveliest flower that blows,—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdb dXbXcX aeXeae dXXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 0001001011 1101011010 11110111 01010101010 10000101 11010101010 110011110 01010110110 11010101 1101011010 1100101111 1101011010 01010010101 0101101010 110100101 01110011010 1101010101 11010101010 110101101 1001011110 110110101 1101011110 01110111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Rose Of Flora;
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  • history of its creation;
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