This is an analysis of the poem On The Silence Of A Young Lady that begins with:
ON ACCOUNT OF THE IMAGINARY FLIGHT OF HER SUITOR.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd ebeb cfcf agag hchc ijij jcjc gkgk klkl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101000101010010 11011001 11110101 11110101 11010001 11011101 11110101 11110101 01010101 11000101 11010101 11110101 01010001 00010101 11111101 11010101 01110101 00010101 01011001 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110011 110101001 11101101 01110111 11110001 11011101 11010101 01010101 01010001 11010101 10110101 10111001 11010101 01010111 11010111 10010101 11011111 10011101 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, thy, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The author used the same words is, perhaps at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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