This is an analysis of the poem Our Helen that begins with:
Our Helen is a 'perfect love'
Of a blue-eyed baby;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb Xaca ddcd XXXa badX XXea bdXd eddd Xafa bfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001010 001110 1111001 101010 1010101 111110 1111101 001110 1111101 0111110 100101101 0101010 1110101 1101110 11110101 11010100 11010101 0101110 10010101 1101010 110101010 1111110 11110101 1111110 01010100 0101010 11010101 0101010 11110101 0101010 1101001 0100010 11110101 0111110 11011101 1101110 01011101 0101010 01010101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, her are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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