This is an analysis of the poem The White Maiden And The Indian Girl that begins with:

“Child of the Woods, bred in leafy dell,
See the palace home in which I dwell,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbee bbffaa eeddgg hhffii ggddff hhbbhh ggggjj aakkcc llhhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110101 101010111 0010111001 11001011001 111111101 010011110 111110101 110010101 0011100101 1010110101 111111101 1101101101 111100101 110100101 01111101 110101111 111111101 111111101 011010101 111111101 111110111 111110111 110111011 110110111 110100011 11110101 1001000101 1011110111 0100100111 111010101 011101101 1001100101 010100111 1010110111 110111101 10100110101 110010101 110100101 01110101 111111101 010111011 111101101 1111111010 110101111 101011111 110010111 111111101 100101001 111011101 110100101 011100101 010101101 101010110 111100101 1100101101 11100100101 1011101101 100100101 100111111 0100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and, these, to are repeated.

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