This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley that begins with:

Little maiden just beginning
To be comely, arch, and winning,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefgXghhhbaaiiffgfjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 00101110 01111010 01101110 10111010 01101010 101101010 11101010 11100010 11111010 11111111 01000110 11101011 10101010 10001010 10001010 100100110 10111010 10001010 10101010 11101110 00100110 11101011 10111011 11101010 10001011 10101110 00101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 897
  • Average number of words per stanza: 154
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, them are repeated).

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