This is an analysis of the poem Bridal Song that begins with:
ROSES, their sharp spines being gone,
Not royal in their smells alone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb XXdeed ccfggf ggheeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11001101 1011 1010101 1011111 1111 1111101 10100100 1011 10011010 10111110 111 1110101 1111111 1011 1110001 10100111 1101 010100111 01010111 11001 11111111 10010101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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