This is an analysis of the poem Emmy that begins with:

Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air,
Eyes and teeth in the flash of a musical smile, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd baba ebeb efefXfbfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001101001 111001001001 101100111101 11101101 1010101111 11110100101 11110101111 101001 100100100101 10010101001 10101000101001 10111011 10010101011 11100101011 100100110111 110101 110010100101 111011001001 10100111001001 1100111 1111111101 1010111111 11111101001 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • 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; and, her, of, soul are repeated.

    The author used the same words emmy's, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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