This is an analysis of the poem How A Little Girl Sang that begins with:
Ah, she was music in herself,
A symphony of joyousness. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbaabc Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 01000100 11110101 010010001 11110100 11001100 01110001 11010001 11000100 11111101 11111101 111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; she is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lips is repeated).
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