This is an analysis of the poem A Cameo that begins with:
Why speak of Giamschid rubies
Whence rosy starlight drips?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cXXX Xada deXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110111 1101010 010001 1101001 110101 110101 011001 11100100 111101 11010010 0100001 1101110 110101 10110101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word go is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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