This is an analysis of the poem Homage that begins with:
Thy arms with bracelets I will deck,
and with a string of pearls thy neck,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcd ccdXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10010111 101111 1101111101 11011101 011101 110111 01000101 010101 11110101 11011111 0101101 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; thy, with, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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