This is an analysis of the poem Villa Pauline that begins with:
But, ah! before he came
You were only a name:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbbXbddXbXeXeeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 101001 11011010 0101 11101 101101 101011 0111011000 1001 0101101 01101 110100 101 101101111 01010 0101111101011 11110 1110 101001 110110 001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 543
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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