This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Marie that begins with:
You were very fair to meet once, Marie,
With your eyes like some blue hiding flower,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedeaaaafgfgcccc hghgieieacaXcjcjkjkjhahXlclcjiXi lXlXgkgkaaaaehehkXkfcmcmncncacaX eheheceXcmXXdaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,32,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010101101 0111111010 1101110100 11010101010 1010101111 0011010111 1111010111 1101010111 1101011101 1100010101 0101110101 1011011101 1110010101 0101010101 1101111111 11010011011 1111111111 1111010101 0111010111 1111010111 1111111101 1101111111 01110101101 0101110001 1010111111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1111010111 1101111101 1011010101 0111111101 0111011101 1111110111 1011010100 11010111000 1101011111 1111010111 1111011101 1101111111 1001010101 0101111111 1101001111 1011110101 1101011111 1101011101 1111010011 1111010101 1111010111 1101010101 0101110101 0101000111 1011111111 0101110111 11110111100 1111010101 1101111101 11010111110 0101011111 10110111110 1011111101 1001010101 11110110101 0101111101 1111110011 1101010101 1100011111 1101001111 1111010111 0101001100 1101110011 0101011101 1100110101 1101111111 1101010111 0101110111 1011111101 0101011101 1101011101 0101011101 1011010101 1011010001 0011010101 1101110111 1101011101 0111010111 1111011101 0101001101 1111010011 1111110101 1101011111 1111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1111110101 0100111101 1111010111 1111110101 1101011111 11110101110 1111111101 0111011101 0101110101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1137
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, you, to, of, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, and are repeated.
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- summary of Sweet Marie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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