This is an analysis of the poem Rose And Murray that begins with:

After the movie, when the lights come up,
He takes her powdered hand behind the wings; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbebeeffXX gfgfeheheieijXjb kdkdeieX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 1011110111 1001010111 1001100101 1010010101 11011001001 1011011101 0101010011 0101110001 1001010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101110101 11111100100 11110101010 0101110001 1001010101 1101000101 1000010101 1111011101 1001010101 11110101011 01010100101 1111110111 1001010101 1011110101 100101101 1001010101 1000011101 1011011111 1011011011 11011001101 0011011101 011100101001 00011010101 1111101101 1110010111 0110010101 101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, he, and, she are repeated.

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

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