This is an analysis of the poem The Damsel Of Peru that begins with:
Where olive leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew,
There sat beneath the pleasant shade a damsel of Peru.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaaa eeffee gghhff iiaajj eeiihh bbccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101000100111 11010101010001 0101011110001 110001001100101 11010101011101 10010101010101 101011100010101 11010101011011 1011011010101 11010101110101 01110001111101 010101001010101 1111010010101 11100101111001 11110101010101 11010001111101 10101110110111 11010001111101 0111010010111 111111101100101 1101110010111 01010101010101 10101011010101 101011101110001 111001111101 101001101010101 11010101110011 01000101110101 0111010010101 1011010010101 110111010100101 10110101010101 01110101110101 11010101110101 111010101011101 11010101011101 11001111110011 01110101011101 11010101100101 0101010111111 11101111110101 11110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, in, that, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
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