This is an analysis of the poem Before The Mirror that begins with:
I.
WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcddc bcbceec bcbcccc Xfgfgddg fgfgddg dfdgfgg XXahahha dadadda iaiadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,8,7,7,8,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101110 0111 1011110 1111 010111 101101 1110110101 0101100 1101 1011010 0101 011111 110101 1111011111 1111110 1111 11010010 11011 111101 111101 1111111111 1 1111110 1101 1111110 1111 110111 011111 0100111111 1111110 1111 1101110 1101 110111 110101 1111111111 1101110 1110 1111110 1001 1101110 111111 111101001001 1 1111010 1111 1111010 1101 100101 111111 1111111111 1101010 1111 1101110 1111 111101 110111 1101011111 11011110 0101 1111110 1111 111101 110111 01001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, that, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, and, she, what are repeated.
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