This is an analysis of the poem Magdalene that begins with:
A woman in her youth, but lost to all
The joys of innocence. Love she had known,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbXXXcaXXdebfXfdfcbfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011101 0101001111 1111011101 1010110100 0100010101 0101010101 0101010100 01000101111 1001011 1101 1101110101 111001110 11010101 0101000111 1101 111001 1101110100 1111 0101011101 1111010001 111101 01011111 110111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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