This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of A Dirty Girl that begins with:
The little girls whom now you'll see
Were sisters in one family;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdd ee aaddffdd ggdd hhabaahh Xddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,8,4,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 01001100 11011101 00110101 01010101 11011101 11011101 11110111 01011101 11111101 11110101 01011101 11111101 11111101 11101101 11110101 01000101 11110101 110010101 110010101 010101001 11010101 11110101 01111100 01110111 11011100 11011101 11010001 01000111 01010110 11010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; oft, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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