This is an analysis of the poem How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door that begins with:

A maiden from the Bosphorus,
With eyes as bright as phosphorus,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXcddde eeffgXdeeX ddgghcdXhh XaffijjddX kkffXXdlla ddddmgghhm dciiceXddc dXhhchhffc jjgghnnaah eeddehhddeXjjii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000100 01111100 1101010 0010 010 11001101 01010100 0100010 11010 001 11010101 01011101 1100010 1110 001 010001000 11110100 1111010 0110 0110 010101000 11110010 1101010 0110 101 11011001 010110100 0101100 1110 111 0101000 11010100 1100110 1010 011 11011100 11110111 0101010 1010 111 11011100 01010100 1101010 0010 110 11010000 11010100 1100010 1010 101 01110100 01000100 0101010 1010 001 11111101 11011101 1111010 1010 101 11010100 01010101 1100110 1100 001 01010100 0101000 1001110 1010 101 11010100 110110000 1101110 1010 101 11011101 01010101 111010 1010 101 01011100 01010101 1101010 1110 111 11011110 01000110 0100010 0010 101 11000100 11111101 0101010 0110 101 111010101 01010101 0100010 1010 001 01011101 10110011 01110101 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, she, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, but are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, rooms, them are repeated).

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