This is an analysis of the poem Girl Of Fifteen that begins with:
Girl of fifteen,
I see you each morning from my window... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXcbb XbaXXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1111100110 11111101 11111111 1100101001 1111111 1101101 1010111 11001 1111 110101011001 1110001101 1001111 1101010101 011111010111 11110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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