This is an analysis of the poem A Lady that begins with:

You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabXcbXdcXdX XeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110 111101 1010101 1101101 010110011 011 100101001110 1001011 011010 00100111 111011 1111010 11110 1100011010 111111 1001001 10101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of A Lady;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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