This is an analysis of the poem A Dainty Thing's The Villanelle that begins with:
A DAINTY thing's the Villanelle,
Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaB baX baB baX baB baXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 110001001 01010101 010100101 11010101 01010100 10110101 11010101 01010101 11110001 010101101 01010100 11010101 01011101 01010101 11011001 10010001 01010100 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word well at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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