This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady, Offended By A Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls that begins with:
Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?
I said, you had no soul, 'tis true!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11111111 11111101 1111111111 111010101 111101 10010111 011001 11011101 110101 11010011 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
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