This is an analysis of the poem Mariana that begins with:
WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcEFXX gfgXahhaEFXX ijijcggceFXX bibiXkkhEFXX jhjhjbbjeFXX aiaiilliEFXX mfmfnhhnefXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 01011001 110100101 01011111 10010101 10110101 01010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 011001110 01110101 111110110 10111100 10010001 11010101 110100101 11010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01010001 10110111 011111011 00110101 10001101 01110101 11110111 01010101 110111010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01011001 01010101 110010111 01010101 11010110 1101011 11110101 01010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 11010111 101101101 00110011 11010111 11011101 11110111 01100101 01010101 110111010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 11010101 01011101 011100101 010100101 10010101 110100101 11110101 11010001 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01010101 01110101 10010101 01010101 011111010 10110111 01010101 1100101010 1111011010 10110011 11101100100 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; she, i, said, and, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and, the, old are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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