This is an analysis of the poem Gentle Annie that begins with:
Thou wilt come no more, gentle Annie,
Like a flower thy spirit did depart;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c Xdad efef c ghghXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 1010110001 111011010 1110010011 10 11101011 101110101 101111010 101101101001 111111010 111010011 111011010 11101011011 10 1010111110 101011111 111111110 1011011111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Gentle Annie;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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