This is an analysis of the poem Flowers For Grandmother that begins with:
I came to the cemetery in the hazy heat of autumn,
where the crosses creak as they split, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXcd efag hiic jXfX Xdga Xkeh gbih jXfb aafj XklX fkha ebXc lhja cedb egcmXmjl XbfmXligl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101000101010 10101111 011100101000 1110101 0010010101101 0100011 11010001110 100101 1110111010 01101110010 1000100010010 1011011010 11010101 0011111010 1101100100 111001110 01101111 101001001 1101101 101010000100 11110110 0110101011 100010001010 10110110 11100101000 1101001001 11011010 0110001001 0100101010 101011 1110110100 11100 101101 111010101000 10101011 111001111 1001010111 111101 100100010 110111 0010011010 110111 110100011 100000 1010010110 01111111 11101 011011 1011010101 1110011001001 0111011 10101111110 01010101 1101010 0101011 111101001 101111 101111010 1010111011 111011110001 101111011 011111110 101111010 111011101 011100011110100 01010101 01010011101 10010101 1101111 10011001011 100010100 101101110 0100101010101 1110101100 1011111110 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; had is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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