This is an analysis of the poem Lesbia Hath A Beaming Eye that begins with:
Lesbia hath a beaming eye,
But no one knows for whom it beameth; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcDXccX efefacacdXgXX egegfXfcDXffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 111111010 1110101 111111110 1010101 110111010 10111001 110101010 1110101 110101010 101 0101 110111010 1010101 111101110 1010101 010111010 1110111 111111010 10100101 011111010 1110101 110101010 101 01000 011111010 1010101 110111011 1110101 010101011 10011101 010101100 1011101 010100010 1110101 111101010 111 1111 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; my is repeated.
The author used the same word lesbia at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word creina at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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