This is an analysis of the poem Lessons Of English that begins with:
When Desdemona sang a ditty-
In her last hours among the living- ...
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbXacXc bAbd abad dXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001010 0011001010 010111010 110111011 110001010 01110101 0101010101 11010101 110101010 0011001010 110001110 011101110 010101010 110001110 110011110 010101110 110101010 11110101 0100010100 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, their are repeated.
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