This is an analysis of the poem The Gentlest Lady that begins with:
They say He was a serious child,
And quiet in His ways;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XaXa cdcd dede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001 110001 110100101 010101 01000111 011101 1011101110 111111 11010111 111001 10111111 010001 01110101 011101 11001101 010101 11110101 111111 11011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Gentlest Lady;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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