This is an analysis of the poem Bianca that begins with:
Her cheeks are hot, her cheeks are white;
The white girl hardly breathes to-night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccddc eXXXe ffggf gfhhg hhfXhXaagga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01110101 11010111 110001001 01010001 110101010 101100010 011101001 01010001 000101010 10011001 10010001 10111110 01000100 10010001 11010011 10011101 11110101 10000101 11110101 11111011 00011101 01010111 01010101 01010001 10111101 01111101 010110001 10010100 01010101 11000101 01010101 01110011 11010101 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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