This is an analysis of the poem Clari that begins with:
Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wife
Is the Beauty you showed me this morning:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbXbb cdcdefeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011111 0010111010 11111011011 1010010110 111111001001 11011101 111011101111 101111001 11100111 11001101101 110010010 111001111001 010110010 11011001011 11011011 111011001001 11011001 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mine, hair are repeated).
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