This is an analysis of the poem TO A BROWN BEGGAR-MAID that begins with:
WHITE maiden with the russet hair,
Whose garments, through their holes, declare ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa dddd eeee ffgg ffaa ccdd bbee bbaa gXcc dghh iiXa iiXbXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11011101 11000101 1101 01010111 11010111 01010111 0111 11010101 11110101 10010111 0111 01010111 10110111 11010111 0111 01010111 10110101 10110101 011 11010001 010101001 01110101 1101 11110101 10111101 11110101 01001 01011101 01010001 10110111 1101 11010101 01111101 01010101 1101 110011111 11011101 01110111 1101 11010111 11010101 11110101 1111 11111101 10110001 1001111010 0101 11010001 11010101 11011101 0101 11011100 1101101 11110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, many, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words in, let, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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