This is an analysis of the poem At A Bridal that begins with:
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity,
A dream of other offspring held my mind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab bccb XdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010100 0101011111 0100111101 11110010100 11111101001 11110101010 01011111010 111011101101 1111111100 1101011101 0011101101 11110010100 1011011111 0011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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