This is an analysis of the poem The Cookie-Lady that begins with:

She is gentle, kind and fair,
And there's silver in her hair;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddec ffgdXacd ddXhggXh ccXdiibd ccgjeeej
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 1110001 11101010 1010001 1010101 1010000 0101010 0010001 1010001 1010101 11101010 1010101 11101010 1010101 10100010 0010101 1111111 10100100 00101110 1111101 1110111 1010101 01101110 1010101 1110101 1110111 01111010 1011011 10101011 11111011 10111010 0110101 10111110 10111010 11111010 0110101 10111010 10111010 00001010 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, it are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Cookie-Lady;
  • central theme;
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