This is an analysis of the poem Her Beautiful Eyes that begins with:

O her beautiful eyes! they are as blue as the dew
On the violet's bloom when the morning is new,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc bbffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011111101 10101101001 101011001001 10011001101111 101101101001 111001001001 101001111101 101011001001 101001001001 101011001011 101001001101 111001001001 101001111011 101011001001 111111011101 101011101001 111001011001 111101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word eyes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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