This is an analysis of the poem To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie that begins with:
AND has my darling told a lie?
Did she forget that GOD was by? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddaa aaeedd ffeeaa ffggggXddbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01011111 11110110 01110101 01011111 11010110 11111101 01011101 11111111 11111101 010011111 11011111 11111111 01111101 11110101 11011001 01011101 01011101 11110101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11110101 01000101 11111101 11011101 11010101 10010111 110110101 01110111 11111101 1100111001 11011101 11010011 01010101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, you, to, your are repeated.
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