This is an analysis of the poem The Tollman's Daughter that begins with:
She stood waist-deep among the briers:
Above in twisted lengths were rolled... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cdcd eeee fggh icic ebbe aiia ajajXheef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01010101 01010101 100111010 10011101 111110111 110010111 01110101 01111101 011100101 11010101 01011111 11110011 01010111 11101101 11010100 11010111 10110101 01110100 01000101 01110011 11011111 10010101 11000101001 101110011 11010101 01010001 111010101 11001111 01110101 111000111 010111001 01110100 10010111 01010100 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
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