This is an analysis of the poem For An Annunciation, Early German that begins with:
The lilies stand before her like a screen
Through which, upon this warm and solemn day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXacXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010101 1101011101 1101111101 1111011001 1110110110 0101001011 1101111101 0111010101 1111011000 1111101101 1111111101 1001011111 0111110001 101010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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