This is an analysis of the poem Before Her Wedding Day that begins with:
THIS maiden she is dead, is dead before her wedding-day.
They lay her in her shroud, her shroud as white as flowering may....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa aaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010101 110001011111001 11000101110101 11010101100101 11110100010101 11111111010111 01010101010101 110101011111001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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