This is an analysis of the poem The Village Girl And Her High-Born Suitor that begins with:

“O maiden, peerless, come dwell with me,
And bright shall I render thy destiny:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc bbddee ffccbb aadddd bbccgg ffhhbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110101101 1111101100 1111110111 010010101 110100101 1011101101 1101110111 1111111101 0010100111 110110101 1011110101 11101101001 111111111 0110111101 0100101011 1100100101 1111110101 0010100101 1011111111 11011011 0111100101 1101111101 1010100011 1111101101 01001101101 001010111 1110111101 111111101 1111100111 0101111111 1010011101 111111111 1011101101 1110111101 1110100111 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, in are repeated.

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