This is an analysis of the poem The Wedding Band that begins with:
The girl smiled and said: What
is the secret of this gold ring,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXdX eXb adXcdXaaed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 00100011 0100011110 010110 010001 110111 0111011 00100100101 1011010101110 01101 1111101010 001111 01001011111 11001010 1100101000100 110010 01011010111 11011 11011 00101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word days is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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