This is an analysis of the poem How Merrily The Girls Watch The Procession Of The Fine Young Groom! that begins with:
How merrily the girls watch the procession of the fine young groom!
How pure and clean he looks with tilak adorning his forehead! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbA cXA dXXA bdcA eXA beXfA XffA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011001000111 111111010010010 10101010110011001001 1100011001000111 0100001011101011 1111111101011 1100011001000111 11101010101011110110 11010101001010 11100101001111010010101 1100011001000111 110101000011010010101 010011010101010100001010 1111001001010111 1100011001000111 1000100101011000010010 10100001111010010011 1100011001000111 0111010011001010101 10011101110110 1000111011101110101 1110110001100110 1100011001000111 010010101101001 11111001001 00001110011101110100101 1100011001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, for, they, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word groom at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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