This is an analysis of the poem Violet De Vere that begins with:
You've heard of Violet de Vere, strip-teaser of renown,
Whose sitting-base out-faired the face of any girl in town;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXXeXXdd Xaeeffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001110001 110111001010101 111100101110001 110110011101001 11110101010101 11110100011111 11000101110001 10111101110001 11011101110101 1110001010101010 111101011110110 1011001100100111 11110101111101 010100110110010 11000101011101 11111101110001 11101000101010100 110010100110101 11011111010001 11110100111111 01000101011001 11010111111101 11010101111101 1011110100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 735
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, says are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word vere at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Violet De Vere;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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