This is an analysis of the poem Answers In A Game Of Questions that begins with:
THE LADY.
IN the small and great world too,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a ba ba b b c d ed ed b b b a fa fa g g f h ch ch f f e e fe fb ibXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 0011111 1110101 0010101 1010101 1010101 1110011 1000101 01100 0010111 1010101 1110111 1010111 1011101 11010101 1001111 00100 1000101 1110111 1111101 0011001 1111011 0110011 1110111 0010 1010101 1010101 10010101 1010101 1010101 1010111 0000101 01010 1111100 0110111 1110111 0010101 1111111 00100111 1110111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 39
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, if, human are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.
The author used the same words for, is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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