This is an analysis of the poem Love In Carlisle that begins with:
Girls were crying yesterday in their ball gowns;
Holding each other up like poles of wilted beanstalks. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXXaaa abbXdXbcab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101010111 1011011101010 11001000001 0001111001001 010111010 010111110011 0010101111111 00101001010 11100101 01111010110 1110011111 110011100001 0110110010111 0101110101 101010101 01011001011100 011010111101 01110101100010 111011011111 11001010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, to, her, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word girls at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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