This is an analysis of the poem Non Dolet that begins with:
It does not hurt. She looked along the knife
Smiling, and watched the thick drops mix and run... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111110101 1011011111 1011111101 1101100101 1111011101 1111110101 1101111111 11110010101 0111010111 1101111111 01111100111 11111101101 1011010111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yet, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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