This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady, Who Presented The Author With The Velvet Band Which Bound Her Tresses that begins with:
This Band, which bound thy yellow hair,
Is mine, sweet girl! Thy pledge of love;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gggg hihiXgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 01111101 01110101 11010101 11010111 11110101 010110101 11000101 01110011 01110110 11110101 11010101 00011101 101111101 01010101 110010101 11010101 01010101 10111111 11111101 11010101 01011111 11110101 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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