This is an analysis of the poem Lydia H. Sigourney that begins with:
She sang alone, ere womanhood had known
The gift of song which fills the air to-day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 0101110101 1011010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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