This is an analysis of the poem Francisca that begins with:
Francisca walks in the shadow of night,
But it is not to gaze on the heavenly light - ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001101 100101101001 1011001010 11101001010 1101110100 101011101 110110101 1011110111 1100110101 01011111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
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