This is an analysis of the poem Frigid Lizzie that begins with:
What days do you want to play?
What days do you want to stay, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXX bcb cddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1111101 011 1011111 1010011101 1111101111 011011 010101 01110010 1101 110101 110101011101 00110100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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