This is an analysis of the poem The Lady Of The Motor Car that begins with:
The Lady of the Motor-car she stareth straight ahead;
Her face is like the stone, my friend, her face is like the dead;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbb aacc aabb bbdd eeff aabXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01000101110101 01010111010101 01010111011011 01010111110111 01000101110101 01011101110101 11001101111110 10010101111111 01000101010101 01110101110111 01000101100101 01011101110101 01011101011111 11000101110101 11011111110111 11100101111111 01000101010101 11010101110101 01010101110101 11000110100111 11010010110101 01000101110111 01011101111111 11010001110101 100100010111001 01000111111011 10010001101110 1100010111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, dead, friend, my, face, like, she, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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