This is an analysis of the poem Jane And Eliza that begins with:

There were two little girls, neither handsome nor plain;
One's name was Eliza, the other's was Jane: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedd aaff ffgg ddeeXffaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101101011 11101001011 101011111101 101011101001 110111110110 110010011010 111110010010 110010110010 010111111010 110110110110 11101001001 101011011001 11111011111 101011101011 11111101001 01101011101 101001010101 111011001001 101011101101 01011101001 11111011001 11111001101 110011010010 1011111010110 11101111001 01001011011 101011111001 001011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; her, and, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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