This is an analysis of the poem O' Tigress Of Those Veiled Temptations that begins with:

O' tigress of those veiled temptations hinted.
Your slow prowl eases, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc dcXX Xefdc Xf bag ccebhgXg eddg X bhgbcb XhXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,2,3,8,4,1,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101010 11110 011101 100110 10110011101 1111001011 11110101 111111 10101 10010100 110110 11001 110110 11011100 110011010 100001101010 0010100111 010110100 111100111 10111 11010100010 11100101 01100101 1011 0101 0101010 0111110 1010100 11011011101 101001011 110011010 1111101000100 10011000111 011010011001 11110100 01011101 1 1110 10 00011 1111010101 10100011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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; i, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, with, i'm are repeated.

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