This is an analysis of the poem Can Such Things Be? that begins with:
Meseemed that while she played, while lightly yet
Her fingers fell, as roses bloom by bloom,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXXbcXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011111101 0101110111 1101010101 01110111001 1110110101 01010001001 0101010111 0101010100 1101010100 0101010111 10011111100 1111011101 1111110111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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