This is an analysis of the poem A Few Lines To Beauty that begins with:

Girls!
You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbaccddefeggeehhddeefXggXaiiddjjaadaadkXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100101110101 11110 110101101 110101 1101000101010110 1101 10011 111001 10110001 1111 111111001010010001010 11001 00100101 11110101 110111 1111111 101010 10100101010101010 110001 11000111101 010101 0111 110 11100101011100001010 1111010011 11010111 1110011 11110101 110110100101110 1111010 1101 0111 10 11 01110100101000110 1010001010 1101001010010010 1 01011 010011101010110 1101 111111110011100111 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 272
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, of are repeated.

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