This is an analysis of the poem The Indian Girl: A Picture By Walter Shirlaw that begins with:
She standeth silent as a thought
Too sacred to be uttered; all... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbX aaXcXbabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11000101 010101010 11011101 01010101 11010101 010101001 11111101 11110101 11011101 01100100 11110111 11101100 11111111 11110101 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; she, i are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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