This is an analysis of the poem When Bessie Died that begins with:
If from your own the dimpled hands had slipped,
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX BbccaabbB Bbddeebb BbffccggbBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010111 1111001101 00110001111 1101 11001111 01101101 11010101 01010101 01010000 11110101 11010111 1101 1101 110100101 11010001 11011001 01100111 11111111 11110111 111100101 1101 110010101 11011101 01011101 11011111 10011100 11010101 0101100 11011101 1101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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.
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