This is an analysis of the poem The Red Dress that begins with:
I always saw, I always said
If I were grown and free,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dedeXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 010111 11010101 111111 01110111 010101 110010111 110101 11100101 010101 11110001 111111 11111110 110001 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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