This is an analysis of the poem The Day Undressed&Mdash;Herself that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXaX XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 011000000 01000010 0100001010 0100001 10000010 1101010 01010101 01000110 11010010 110100010 01000101 01010100 010101 010001 110101000 1100010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, too are repeated.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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