This is an analysis of the poem The Deer And The Snake that begins with:
The deer is humble, lovely as God made her
I watch her eyes and think of wonder owned ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ca cb dX deeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101110 1101110101 11110001001 11010111010 11010101 10111011 101100101 01001010100 1101011011 110101101 1111001011 10110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
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