This is an analysis of the poem The Young Usurper that begins with:
On my darling's bosom
Has dropped a living rosy bud, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaaacacaXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111010 11010101 111010 010101 1101 1101 1101111 10010111 01001111 110100111 11001111 101100 111101 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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