This is an analysis of the poem Laos that begins with:
Dear girl, your cheeks are soft and tender,
And your breasts, like little hills, are slender,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb aX cc XX Xd cc eb XX feXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 1111101110 1010110010 1010101010 1100101010 10101111000 1110111001 100110101 1110001110 1010110011 1100100010 10100011010 101011111 10000010111 1001111010 1011101110 1111101011 1110101010 1111111110 1010101010 0110111110 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, you are repeated.
The author used the same word should at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Laos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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