This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Come Again that begins with:
There is silence in the parlor, and the pretty girl sits
still, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX cX bd X cXc eX dX e fb cf fd X eg Xc eg X a Xf cX X dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,3,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010101011 1 10101110011010 1 1010101011101 11 1110111111111 10 110101111100010 1011101011011 1001 11101010101011 10 1110111111111 10 110101111111 01 101011111010 101 0010101010101 01 1110111111111 10 01011101010101 1 11011101110 101 111010101110101 1 11101111111110 111010100010 001 11010101011 101 111111011010 1 10100101011101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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