This is an analysis of the poem The Coquette that begins with:
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,
That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b a b c d c d e a e a f a fXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000101 1101011101 11001110101 1101111101 0111100111 0111111101 1111010111 0111110011 1101010011 1101110101 1111010001 01110100001 1111010101 100100111100 1011111101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 44
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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