This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xxiii Pure Hands that begins with:
Phidyle, my country girl, if you raise your
upturned palms to heaven, at the new-born moon,...
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXaX XbbX cXbX XcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 100101010111 011001001 0001000101 11011100010 10011101011 100100101 0110101001 10101010110 10001011101 1100001011 0101000101 101111011100 01001010101 111110100 0110101010 01111010101 11101010101 110101100 0010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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