This is an analysis of the poem No Lilies For Lisette that begins with:
Said the Door: "She came in
With no shadow of sin;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXD aaddbbXD eefffffXF ggeecceXE hhffcchXH XDXDXFXEXH iijjhhkkff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,9,9,9,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 011101 101001 11001 01111 111011 101011 10111100 101 101111 001001 11101 11101 11011 111111 1111010 101 1011011 001111 101001 11101 01101 01101 11001 1111010 101 1011011 001001 111001 001101 11001 01101 11011 1100010 101 1011001 001101 110011 101101 111011 101101 101111 11100100 101 100100 101 10110 101 10100 101 10110 101 10010 101 111 111 101 101 101 101 011 101 101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, said are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word said is repeated.
The author used the same word said at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word room at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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