This is an analysis of the poem Blue Girls that begins with:

Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe ghghg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110001 10010011010 110011011100 0101001 1011010111 1111010101 1111110101 1100101 10110110101 11010111110 1011110110010 0011 11111010101 11010001001 111001 101001010011 11110011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; your is repeated.

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  • summary of Blue Girls;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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