This is an analysis of the poem Little White Lily that begins with:
Little White Lily
Sat by a stone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbAdAd AdXXAdXd AbcbAece AbabXXXX AfbfbbAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 1101 10110 1011 10110 1111 10110 01001 10110 11000 10111 10110 10110 1101 10010 1101 10110 1001 10110 1011 10110 1001 10110 11001 10110 11001 11110 01011 11110 1111 11011 111110 10110 1101 10111 1101 10011 1001 10110 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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