This is an analysis of the poem The Lady To Her Guitar that begins with:

For him who struck thy foreign string,
I ween this heart has ceased to care; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb fdfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111101 11011101 11111101 01110101 00100111 011111001 11011101 11010101 00100101 11010111 10010101 1101111 101011101 110111001 11010101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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.

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  • summary of The Lady To Her Guitar;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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