This is an analysis of the poem Lady Justice that begins with:
You are sad and you start out sluggishly,
Shedding your gypsy skirts and learning...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab Xcc XXd cXX eXe cXe baf gXg dfeXfbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111100 101101110 01101110101 1110100101 110110011011 101011111 1101011101 1010010111 111111011 1101110111 11001111011 10110100111 1101010010 01010100111 101010001101 010100001001 00111011110 11010101100 1001110101 1010010001011 101011101 11110110010 1110110110 11011101010 00101011011 111001111 010110100101 1011111011 11110111001 010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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