This is an analysis of the poem The Three Maidens that begins with:
There were three maidens met on the highway;
The sun was down, the night was late: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba caca dada cacAXcacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011011 01110111 111100101 10100010001 110010111111 01010101 110101101 10100010101 110010010101 01110101 11111111 10100010101 110010101111 01110101 111101111 10100110001 1110011011101 01010101 01010101 10100010101 0101011011101 01010101 11010111 10100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The author used the same word said at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mate at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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