This is an analysis of the poem The Rose Upon My Balcony that begins with:
The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111000101010 110101011101001 111101011101010 00010101110101 010011000101110 11010101110101 101011010100010 00010101110111 110101100111110 01010110010101 1111011101101100 11111110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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, mamma 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 the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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