This is an analysis of the poem Lucy Ashton's Song that begins with:
Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 11111110 11101110 11101010 11101010 00111110 1011111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; not, when, and are repeated.
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- summary of Lucy Ashton's Song;
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- history of its creation;
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