This is an analysis of the poem Lui Et Elle that begins with:

She is large and matronly
And rather dirty,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcd befgXghefi gGbeX ecbfXG hejkl gc jjm kageflm bbem biag iamilg gm bgbijX ignaXni XeX mgdg kXmm fmejXem kg XXil dXXbiimkgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,5,6,5,2,3,7,4,4,6,2,6,7,3,4,4,7,2,4,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 11010 010010101011100110000 1111011111100010101 1110010 111 1101 1101101110101 11010 111111111 110110110110 1000101010110101 00101001101 110110 11011111101100111 11001101001 11010 1010 110101101 101010 1111 11 111010111 11111 01111111101 1010101100 1010 10100110101 1111111011000110101 1111111111011000 111101101010011 11111110111001001 101010 111111111110 10110 10010 1010001 0010111100100101 0110011100 0101101 01100101011101 11010 11110011 1110101101 11010101 100101011001011 10010 1111010011010100001 100010 10011001010 11011010111011000 01010010 1011 10001010110010100 100111110011001010 110101 1011111101 1100111 0111010101 01101110010 11110 0101001010110110 0010100 01001010 110 1111 01010101001010 0101011101001 10011010001001010100101 010001000100 11101011100001010000 1011010001001 00100101001 1101010100100 00100111110100010 1111010101010000 1101110001 0111000101001 110101101001 101111111010 10010010101110101 101001 10010011010101 01011011001 11111110 0101 111100110110 11001101010 00101 1100 1111 111001010 111010010010 110101000100011 1111001 110011111010 1110110111011 1111 10110100 1000 01110111101 1010111 111001010001001 110110101 1111001 11111 1110111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; she, and, mistress, my, her, his, striving, of, i, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, his, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mistress, feet, face are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word shell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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