This is an analysis of the poem The Beauty And The Dude that begins with:
A fresh sweet-scented beauty
Came tripping down the street;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadad XbcbXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 110101 1111010 111101 0101010 111001 1100010 111101 11111100 110001 1011010 111101 1111101 111001 00111010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dude at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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