This is an analysis of the poem Blind Mary that begins with:
There flows from her spirit such love and delight,
That the face of Blind Mary is radiant with light-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddaa eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001011101 1010110010001 101001111001 101101101101 110110110011 1110011011001 111001111001 101111111011 11111011111 1010110101011 11010111011 11101011101 01101011011 011010101011 101011111001 010010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, in are repeated.
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