This is an analysis of the poem A Daughter Of Eve that begins with:

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cacca dedde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 01110111 1111010 01010011 01011111 0101110 11011111 1011010 11111101 10110111 0101110 111101001 1111010 11011101 11011101 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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