This is an analysis of the poem Lines On H---'s Foot that begins with:
It may be you've seen her eyes,
Dark and deep like midnight skies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddeeffdd ccgghhii jjddggXccc kkcccXXl ccXghhggdlcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,10,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 1111111 1101101 1010101 1010101 0111111 111101 0010101 1110101 01010101 1110111 1010101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1110111 1011111 1111001 1011101 0111101 1110111 1011101 1110111 1010101 0110111 111101 0110111 111101 1111111 11 1 001 1010101 1110101 0011111 110101 1010101 1010100 1010011 1001011 1010101 1110111 1110101 11 1 0111 0111101 1111110 1110101 111 1 11 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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