This is an analysis of the poem The West-Of-Wessex Girl that begins with:
A very West-of-Wessex girl,
As blithe as blithe could be,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbcX addeded affgfgf X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 111110 111101 11110101 111111 11110111 010100 1101101101 010111 110101 11000101 110101 10010101 010001 11110101 111101 011111 11011101 001101 11110111 110001 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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