This is an analysis of the poem The Looking Glass that begins with:
When I look into the looking glass
I'm always sure to see -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101 011101 11011101 110111 11010111 111101 01011011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, as are repeated.
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