This is an analysis of the poem St.Valentine that begins with:
The girl's a slender thing and fair,
With dimpled cheek and eyes ashine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaB cbXcB dbddB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01010111 01011110 01010101 10011101 01011101 11110101 110010001 010101010 01110001 01011101 11010111 11011101 11010101 11110101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word valentine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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