This is an analysis of the poem Tortoise Gallantry that begins with:
Making his advances
He does not look at her, nor sniff at her,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefga hcXbXX ideejb dbcjd gklX dl fdfb hdjk Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,5,4,2,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100010 1111101110 11101100101 1011001000101 1101011101 000101 01011111 01011100111 1111010101 1100101001 10010101 11110110 101 1010001000100101000 11010001101 110101000101010 110101001010 111010 1 101010101010101100 10101 110 11000100001011 01010001 010100001 111 11101001001 101100100011011000101010 11000 010010 101110100101010010 10101010111100110 1010101001110 10010010001 101010 110010011010 10100 101 11010101 111010111 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, at, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines being is repeated).
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