This is an analysis of the poem The Lily In A Crystal that begins with:
You have beheld a smiling rose
When virgins' hands have drawn... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabcbc adXcXefe aeeaghgh biibijij kllkmcmc dnndiiii foofibib XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 110111 1000111 11110101 1000101 11000101 110101 111101 11111100 110001 010110 11110100 1101100 11110000 110101 110001 11110101 110101 010101 111101001 000101 11011101 111101 110101 11011100 011101 110001 00111101 101101 11110111 111111 110100 11011101 111011 111101 01010101 1011010 11110100 0111110 010001 110100100 011101 110011 11110111 110101 11111001 110101 111101 11111111 1101001 010101 11111111 111101 00010111 101101 1101001 11 1010101101000000100000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same words you, thus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase then connects the lines.
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