This is an analysis of the poem Acrostic that begins with:
Little maidens, when you look
On this little story-book, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdbbeeffccbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010101 1000101 0010100 10111001 1110101 1100101 1011001 0010111 1000101 10101010 10101010 10111110 01101010 1010111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Acrostic;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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