This is an analysis of the poem From 'Daphnaida' that begins with:

SHE fell away in her first ages spring,
Whil'st yet her leafe was greene, and fresh her rinde, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXaXX bcbcXXX XXdXXXX dXdXeXe fdfdgXg XhXhchc ececdcd XgXXbgX XXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010011001 1101111101 11011100101 1101011101 1101011101 1101111101 1101011100 1111111001 11101110001 1111010111 1111100111 1101010010 0111010101 1110010100 111111101 0101010001 1101111101 0101010101 11110101001 11011011110 111101010 1111010111 11011111000 11111101101 11010011010 111101001 10011011010 10011100111 1101010100 0101010101 1001011101 1110010011 11010111111 1101110111 1011000111 1110100011 1101011111 11101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0100110001 0100010011 11011101001 1101010101 1101010101 1111111111 1100110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111110 1110001001 0111001001 1101001110 111110111 1100101010 110111110 1111010100 11001110111 11100110100 1111011001 011111111 1011110101 1101011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, with, she, and, your, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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