This is an analysis of the poem How Pansies Or Hearts-Ease Came First that begins with:
Frolic virgins once these were,
Overloving, living here;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 1000101 1011101 1111111 1010011 1110100 11101110 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; their is repeated.
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