This is an analysis of the poem Your Slander Is Sweet that begins with:
Rana, to me your slander is sweet.
Some praise me, some blame me. I ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a a b c d a X X X b d X X e c X e X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001 1111111 10101 10101111 10111111 111010010 11010111 010 101010010 10101001010 1010010010 11111110 011111101 1101011 11101100101 1011 1110110110 100110111 10101001011 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 28
- Average number of words per stanza: 6
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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