This is an analysis of the poem The Sensible Romance Of Mildred that begins with:

MILDRED McGee was a beautiful blond,
As fair as peroxide could make her. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe fbgbdbfb XhihahghXhecehhih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101001 111011110 111011101101 1010111010 1110111001001 110010011 1010101101101 1110010011 01101111001 1110010010 11011001001 1110110010 111011001001 1110110010 11001011001 1011011010 101011011111 1111111110 111111101011 0010010010 101001001011 110010110 111001001111 1011010110 101011011011 111110011 1100111100 010010011 11011111001 110010110 01010111101 111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, an' are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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