This is an analysis of the poem Bki:V Treacherous Girl that begins with:
What slender boy, Pyrrha, drowned in liquid perfume,
urges you on, there, among showers of roses,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bcca XXXX bddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101001 101110110010 1101101 11011111 010100110111 010011011110 01110010 01101001 10111101110 11111010110 0100100 11011110 110111101010 111010101010 1101101 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words surprised, who are repeated.
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- Analysis of Bki:Xi Carpe Diem
- Analysis of Bkii:Vii A Friend Home From The Wars
- Analysis of Bkiii:V No Surrender
