This is an analysis of the poem On Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing Themselves that begins with:

1 When bashfull daylight now was gone
2 And night, that hides a blush, came on.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXaccddXXXaXXefffbbXXXXfebbfeXghhddffgXfXXgXXXhbbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111 111110111 1110100101 101000101 1011100101 1110111001 111101111 111111101 101010101 101110101 10110101 1111011101 111010001 11101100 111111111 1110101011 111110101 11010111 1110100010 101010111 111011111 11010101 111111101 111001101 110011110 111010101 11110010110 1011100110 111011101 11110100 111111101 110101101 111110111 101010100 1011101110 111110001 1010100001 111111111 111111101 111011001 111010111 11111011001 1110110001 101111101 11111111 111110101 111010101 111111001 111011101 1110111110 111011111 11000011 111111111 110111111 111110101 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2385
  • Average number of words per stanza: 444
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.

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