This is an analysis of the poem Polarities that begins with:
SOMETIMES she is like sherry, like the sun through a vessel of glass,
Like light through an oriel window in a room of yellow wood; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccacddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0110110101101001 111110100010101 011001001001001001 011101110101 01111100111 11011111100 01101001100110 011010101110 011111111110 1101101110010 10101111001001 0111001000100101 01110100010101 01111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 801
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, sometimes, like, her, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sometimes is repeated.
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