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

Of her two fights with the Beryl-stone
Lost the first, but the second won.... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,280,1,32,1,295,1,43,1,255,1,38,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2803
  • Average number of words per stanza: 538
  • Amount of lines: 956
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, and, that, my, mother, as, you, to, they, god, thank, her, she, be, shame, love, sea, thy, it, in, of, altar, our, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, woe's, her, o, at, it, he, alone, one, to, his, or, with, but are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, alone are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fear, her, dead, alone connect the lines.

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