This is an analysis of the poem Maidenhood that begins with:
Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes,
In whose orbs a shadow lies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee bbX fff ggg aaa bbb Xhh aaa hhh iiX jjjXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111 0110111 1010101 1111101 10101001 1010101 1000101 1011101 1011111 1000101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1000111 1010001 11100010 11100110 10101100 1111101 1010101 1010111 10110101 1110111 100101001 1110101 1110111 1111101 1010111 1010001 1110001 110011100 11101010 11101010 10111011 1011101 0011101 1010011 1011001 1101101 1110111 0110101 1110101 1111111 0011101 10111111 1111111 00100101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word bear at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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