This is an analysis of the poem The Brass Bed that begins with:
I love thy color and thy symmetry ;
I love the art that wrought thy glttering- arms. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcbdeaaefagdadhXhgfXachcgXbga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011100 1101111101 11001101001 1101110111 0101010101 1111001 1111110101 0101010011 0111110111 011100111 011111110010 1111010111010 1 11010111010 1111111111 1111111111 01111101 010101110111 0111010 11111101 0101000101 1111010 100010111 1101110111 10011101 0101001001 11111101 11111111 01111101 11001010101 1101110101 1111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1306
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, i, love, as, of, to, couldst, but, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of, couldst, thy are repeated.
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