This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Youth that begins with:
The mouth of the girl who had lain long in the rushes
looked so nibbled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXabaccbX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111110010 1110 111001001001110 1000010100101 1101011 110111 010010110110 1001111 10101001 11110011111 01000100010 101101010101 010001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Beautiful Youth;
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- idea of the verse;
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