This is an analysis of the poem The Girl That Lost Things that begins with:
There was a girl that lost things-
Nor only from her hand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dede fdfd agag hehi jeje kgkg lele dmdm ibib nono gggg bbbb apap apap ibib jeje bgbg hqhq ararXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 110001 1101111 101101 1111110 111101 0110110 110101 1111010 010101 0101010 1110101 1111010 010101 1111010 111001 110101 0010001 1010101 110011 1111010 1111010 1101110 1100010 111101 111101 111011 110111 1111011 1011010 1110011 1111010 111101 101101 101101 110101 1111010 110101 1111010 111111 1111010 111111 1111010 110101 111101 111101 110101 010001 111101 1111010 1010101 1101010 111101 0011101 010001 1011111 10011010 0101010 0111110 1111110 0100011 0111010 1011111 1111010 1101010 110111 1111110 111001 111101 110101 110111 1100011 1101110 111111 1101110 0010001 1101010 110111 11001110 110001 1111011 0101010 1111101 1111110 10101010 010111 00101010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; them, i, she, and, her, things are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her are repeated.
The author used the same words and, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Girl That Lost Things;
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