This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 09 that begins with:
This girl gave her heart to me,
And this, and this....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaacddeXefABXdccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 1010 0111110111 1100101 01111111101001 11101101110 1101100101 1011110111011 1010110011 001011 111001111011 0110101 1010 1100111111100 11111 111111111 10111010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; this, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.
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