This is an analysis of the poem And What Have You To Say? that begins with:

I MIND the days when ladies fair
Helped on my overcoat,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcb defE gaeada deXE fdeXcd gehE biXiXi geXEbehE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,6,4,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 111101 11010100 011101 11010101 0100111 11011111 011111 11010111 111101 11010101 111101 11111101 011111 11111111 111111 11011101 110111 11111100 111101 11011111 111101 11010111 110111 110010111 011101 11010100 0111001 11110101 111101 11000101 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 1010100 11111101 110111 11010101 111101 01 01 1101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; i, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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