This is an analysis of the poem A Girl I Like that begins with:
She bears a basket on her arm,
Athrough the crowded street ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xb ab cb de Xe ad cd Xf Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 100101 01110101 010101 01011101 011101 01010111 010111 01000101 010101 11010101 010101 110010101 110111 01010101 111101 11110101 010111 11010101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 words her, i are repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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