This is an analysis of the poem Flirtation that begins with:
Yes, leave my side to flirt with Maude,
To gaze into her eyes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaabccc XXdceeXe fgcggdfd XghgfiXiXieheaibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010001 01000111 110101 11111111 111111 11010101 111101 1101011 110110 0010101 011101 00101010 010111 11010111 111101 0101110 110101 01111111 010101 0111011 010101 10101110 110111 0101100 011111 00111010 1110101 01101010 010101 11011011 101111 11101011 110101 11111010 11001001 10111110 010101 11101010 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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