This is an analysis of the poem And Like A Dying Lady, Lean And Pale that begins with:
And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1101100101 1001011001 11010000101 0101100101 01110110110000000100001010010100001010101000010110010100110110111000100001011001011010100100010000101101010000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 100 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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