This is an analysis of the poem The Pretty Lady that begins with:
He asked the lady in the train
If he might smoke: she smiled consent....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedebX fafaaX bcbcXX ceceeX gegXchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 01111101 11000111 01110110 01010101 111101 10010101 01010101 01011101 11001101 01011111 1101 11010101 11110001 01011110 11010101 10111101 1101 11110111 10110111 01111101 11111111 011101101 110111 10010111 11011101 11011001 11010111 11110111 110100 01111101 11111101 10110101 01000011 11110001 11010001 01110101 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, i, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' 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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- summary of The Pretty Lady;
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