This is an analysis of the poem And Does She Still Perceive that begins with:

And does she still perceive, her curtain drawn,
white fields, where maiden Dawn ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdbdceeccfggfhhibbidffjddijjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 111101 01000010101 10010100101 101101 111111 0100101110101 0101010111 1101 110001 101101111011 1101 1001110101 1001011101 01011101001 01111100001 111101011100101 11001 1111101111 111101 1111011111 0111 1111110001 11000101101 110101 010101 1101110101 101101 1010111010101 1001111101 110101 1011010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 221
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and is repeated.

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