This is an analysis of the poem At A High Ceremony that begins with:
Not the proudest damsel here
Looks so well as doth my dear.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbb ccdd eeee ffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1111111 1011101 110101000 010001101 11010001 01010101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11011101 11010111 10000111 01110011 11010111 11110111 11001101 00101111 01010101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word than is repeated.
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