This is an analysis of the poem A Certain Lady that begins with:
Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head,
And drink your rushing words with eager lips, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedE dXdXebebcecE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 11111101001 1111111101 0101011111 1101111111 1111110111 1101010111 1101 1111110111 1111011000 0101000001 01001110101 1111011101 0111001101 11111100111 1111110101 1101010011 1111110111 1111111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, of, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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