This is an analysis of the poem The Only Daughter. Illustration Of A Picture that begins with:
They bid me strike the idle strings,
As if my summer days... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdedefdfd dgdghihicbcbejej aaaakbkbagagcbcb ejejXebejbjbcdcd hfhflblbekekmfmf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 101101 11010011 011101 11011101 100011 01110101 010101 10011111 110011 11011100 111101 01111101 011101 01011101 110111 010100111 110111 11110101 111101 110101001 1101001 111111001 010111 110100111 111111 01110101 101101 11110101 111111 01011111 010101 11010101 0111010 11011001 1101110 11010101 110101 01010111 110001 01000111 110101 01010101 110101 11111001 10111 11011101 011111 11010111 010001 11010101 111111 11010110 010101 11010101 111101 010110101 010101 101010111 010101 01010101 011111 11100101 011111 11011111 010101 01111101 111101 101100111 010101 10111101 1100101 11110001 1011001 11011111 1111001 11110101 0101101 01001101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, to, the are repeated.
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