This is an analysis of the poem If I Ever Marry, I'Ll Marry A Maid that begins with:
If ever I marry, I'll marry a maid;
To marry a widow, I am sore afraid:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX aaaX bbcc dXXd XXeeXaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011011001 01001011101 11111011001 11011111111 01011111001 101001101011 01001011001 10110101011 01110011110 1111101011 01001101101 11111101011 01011011001 10110001010 1010110110100 101111011101 01001011011 111111011001 101111101001 111001011001 101011011011 001001010101 101001001011 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; marry, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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