This is an analysis of the poem Eventail that begins with:
Lovely Semiramis
Closes her slanting eyes:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbaaccddeeccXXaaffeeccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000 100101 101101 001101 1011010 101110 110101 101111 101101 100101 1111001 101111 100111 101111 111101 111101 1010110 101110 100101 101101 100100 110011 111101 101101 10110 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 695
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
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