This is an analysis of the poem A Hunter's Indian Dove that begins with:

DARK is her cheek, but her blood’s rich blush
Comes through its dusk with a sunset flush, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddee ffccee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100110111 110100111 11101011001 10110100101 1011111001 1010100111 1101101101 0111100111 1001100111 10011011001 1101100111 1011100101 111010111 1011100101 10100101101 1101011001 11001011001 1001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; her is repeated.

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