This is an analysis of the poem Your Criss-Crossed Ringlets Of Hair that begins with:
Your criss-crossed ringlets of hair
Are tipped with faltering opalescence....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabXbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001 1101001000 110111001 110110111 0101011011 0100101101010 1101110101 101001001010011 111101101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; of, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart is repeated).
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