This is an analysis of the poem They Tricked Her Is Saying Belle that begins with:

They deceived her Saying she is beautiful
And the beautiful are tempted With praise,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefefgghbfXdXbXdXfcahbah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010100 1010011001 110100111 110101001 11 0111110101 101010011 101 1110 100101010 1111100100 111110001 11011 1111 01001 10111 1111 11011000010 111001 101 110101 11101 1101101110 1101110 10101 1111100 010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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