This is an analysis of the poem Silently She's Combing that begins with:
Silently she's combing,
Combing her long hair ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbab XaXa Xbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 10011 1001100 0100101 01000111 110101 11110011 010101 1111011 11111 11110100 100101 111110010 101101 110100101 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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