This is an analysis of the poem Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet that begins with:
Chorus—Mally's meek, Mally's sweet,
Mally's modest and discreet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba aaXaC aXaXC bdXdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 1010101 101101 10100101 11110101 0100111001 11011101 11110101 1011 00111111 01110101 11111111 011100110 1011 01010101 11010111 10111101 11010111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mally's, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mally's is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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