This is an analysis of the poem Her Pretty Print Dress that begins with:
She is like a soft caress
In her pretty print dress, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa b X b cc a a d dc ee f f aa g X aa c c aca d hhg iX i ffXaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,3,1,3,2,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 001011 110011110101010 111101010001011 10 101011 11110101 101011100011101 0101110101011 110101 1101101 1111000110010 101 1101110010101 10101010 1101010 101010101110001 1111101001011 11101010 1111100 0101010001011 1101010010001 1111011 1101011 1110101100101 11111111000101 1 111 111101 010101 1111011001010 10 010101111110 10 1111110 01101110 01010111110101 1110100100101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 55
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, mocking, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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