This is an analysis of the poem In A Lady's Album that begins with:
WHAT can I write in thee, O dainty book,
About whose daintiness faint perfume lingers— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dXdb eceX fgfg hchc hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 01110010110 0011010101 11110101010 1011011101 11010101010 1101011111 01110101010 1100111101 11001101110 1101010101 110000111010 1111010111 11010111010 1111110101 11011111100 1101001101 010101110010 1011011101 01011011010 1111010101 010011101010 10110010111 01110101010 1111000111 01111101110 1100011101 10110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; dainty, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, no are repeated.
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