This is an analysis of the poem The Lady's Looking-Glass that begins with:
Celia and I the other Day
Walk'd o'er the Sand-Hills to the Sea:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddaaa aaXXbbee aXXbaaffdX ddaaeeaa ggaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 110011001 01010101 0101001001 11010001 01110101 01010101 010010101 11011101 01011101 11110111 01110111 11010111 01010101 01010101 11110101 10010001 11011101 110011101 01011101 11111111 11011110 11100101 11010111 01010101 01111111 11100111 01010101 11111111 11111111 11111101 11110101 10111101 11010101 11111101 01111111 10110111 01010111 100010111 11111111 10111111 11111101 10101111 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; i, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when are repeated.
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