This is an analysis of the poem A Discouraging Model that begins with:
Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing,
With a Gainsborough hat, like a butterfly's wing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddd eeddd ffbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010101001 001001101011 10111100101 101011010101 101111001 101011100101 011001101011 101001111111 111101001101 101011001 11110111001 101001111101 01011011001 01101001111 101001001 111011001010 101101001001 101001001001 101001111011 001001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, nor are repeated.
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