This is an analysis of the poem A Pretty Woman that begins with:
I.
That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bacb X deed X effe X aeea a dggd a deed X gccg X ghhg X ijji k ajja a dggd X ddda X kiik X khhk X hbbh X bhhb X bbbk XXahha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110100 1011 1110 111001100 1 01110111 1011 1111 111111111 1 11110111 1011 1011 1011000111 1 101111111 1111 1111 1010101011 1 111010101 1111 1111 101011101 1 111011111 1111 11101 001011111 1 111011101 0010 0110 111010111 1 11011101 1110 1110 001010101 1 111110111 1110 1010 1010110111 1 101011100 1010 1011 001011101 1 111001101 0111 1011 111010101 1 00101010 1110 1110 111010101 1 10000101 1010 1010 001100101 1 111111111 0010 1110 101010111 1 111011110 1110 0111 101011110 1 101010101 10110 10110 101110101 1 101010111 1010 1010 111110101 1 111011101 1010 1110 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, and, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, sake, too, for, there, it, flower are repeated).
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- summary of A Pretty Woman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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