This is an analysis of the poem The Bride that begins with:
SHE is standing by her loved one's side,
A young and a fair and a gentle bride, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdaaaaee aaffddXXgghhffhh hhiiaahh eebbaadXccccjjeejjaaffjjbbXddhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,16,8,33,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111 0110110101 11001101 11100101 11000111 01011101 11111110 01010101 11111111 01011111 01110101 01111101 11111111 00111101 11010011 11110101 11110101 11010101 11111111 11110101 11111101 1011101100 11111101 11111101 11110101 11111111 11011101 01010101 11011111 00111111 1010100101 11110101 01111111 011100111 110101011 11011101 11110111 1101001100 11110101 11110101 01011101 00110101 01110111 11111101 10110111 010101010 11010111 11010101 00011101 110010101 00111101 110101001 11110111 11111101 110100101 11111111 0100011001 11011101 11010111 11010101 010010111 01011111 01110101 11010101 11110111 111111001 11011111 01011101 1001011101 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, home, they, same, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, i, where, she are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home is repeated).
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