This is an analysis of the poem Veils that begins with:
Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black,
Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca cdefXcfXcdefXed XedXeggggebbehhaaddii Xccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,15,21,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 1011011111 1101110101 1001010101 1111011101 0111110101 1101010101 0111110011 100110111010 1111011101 0101110001 0111010 10010100111 0101010101 0111 0100011101 11001111111 0101010011 1111010101 11 1 1 0101000101 0101011111 0111010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010111 11010001010 11111111001 101111 01001101110 100101 111101 10110100111 1001010101 01010011101 1111110111 0101011101 0101010101 1111110101 1101110111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; veils, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word veils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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