This is an analysis of the poem An Ode To Nellie that begins with:
AH Nellie, you were always fair, and you were always good and true,
I've sung about your wealth of hair, and praised your eyes, so soft and blue, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111011011 1101110111111111 1111010111110111 0101110101011111 0101010101011111 1101110111010111 1101001011010101 11111101110010101 1011001111011101 0111010111010101 01110101011111001 1111110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, you, other, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word were is repeated.
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