This is an analysis of the poem Oh, Oh Rosalie that begins with:

Oh, oh Rosalie,
Oh, oh Rosalie, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbACCcADDdAEEeaFFfAGGgAAbbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 11100 111101 11100 11101 11101 011101 11100 11101 11101 111101 11100 100101 100101 110111 01100 11101 11101 111101 11100 11111 11111 110101 11100 11100 111101 111101 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; oh, rosalie are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, i, many are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rosalie, fine, store, thought, days, you, me are repeated).

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