This is an analysis of the poem Mary And Gabriel that begins with:

Young Mary, loitering once her garden way,
Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefbfXggbbeehhXciig ghhjjkkfceellcciiggjjeeffigXgccbbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,35,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010101 10110100101 1111010111 1001100101 11010111110 11010101010 1001010001 11110100101 1001011101 11001101001 100110111 1101010 111 10101110 1101 100110100111 1101111111 0100111101 1101110101 1011011101 0111110101 0111011011 01101101001 01010001110 1111110101 1101011101 1101010111 1101100111 11000010011 1111011011 01011110110 11111001110 1100110101 1111111111 1011011101 011100010 0111110001 01110001101 101101001010 10111100010 11110101000 1101011100 1101010001 1001010011 10001000101 0101011001 11110000100 1011010100 0100001101 11010100101 1100010111 1101011011 1110 10101101 1110010 01101 10010101110 01110111110 0101000111 0110011111 01110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 904
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, she, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, she, and are repeated.

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