This is an analysis of the poem Over The Banisters that begins with:
Over the banisters bends a face,
Daringly sweet and beguiling. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb efef dgdg hghg aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101 10011010 11010101 11001010 011100101 1111010 100101111 1110010 111100101 1011010 111010101 10010010 101100101 1101110 11001111 11101010 110101101 1001010 101110101 101010010 100100111 1011010 111101101 1110010 1010110101 1111010011 110010010100 1110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
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