This is an analysis of the poem A Girl's Sin - In His Eyes that begins with:

Can I forget her cruelty
Who, brown miracle, gave you me?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdXccXXeeffbbXdXgggbabXhheeccffXdddXXbba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010100 11100111 10100111 01010100 1000101 0010100 111111110 110101110 01111100 11110001 11110111 01010111 110010101 11110101 11010101 11010111 101100010 01011111 01010101 01110000 11001101010 0101001010 10010100 10100100 101100011 1010101 00101001 01010101 11010011 11101100 11010111 10100011 11001100 11010110 11011101 11111101 110010001 111001011 11010100 10101101 10011101 01010101 01000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1424
  • Average number of words per stanza: 250
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • 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; to, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.

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