This is an analysis of the poem To She Who Is Too Light-Hearted that begins with:
Your head, your gesture, your air,
are lovely, like a lovely landscape:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaaccdXbbdeffegXcgbggbhdfhciiXhjjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 110101011 1001011 011001101 0101011111 0101101 1010101 011110 001010 0111011 01010010 0101010 1111010 011011 11111101 11111101 01001010 1111100 11011111 1101010 101110 1101010 11010101 010110100 11111010 0100101 111011101 111010 011101 0101101 10110101 1101 111010 111111 11011100 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1133
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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