In A Lady's Album by Marcus Clarke: poem analysis

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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