This is an analysis of I Gather Motley Flowers by Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin.

I gather motley flowers
And braid, braid a garland,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd Xefa ddeb bggb fcdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010 111010 111 1101001 010110 1111 111 101010 010011110 011011 1001111 1011101 1100100011 1101101010 11111010 1010011 10010011 11000110 10111011 110100001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, you

Anaphora

the, i