This is an analysis of the poem Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress that begins with:
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The arts are old, old as the stones... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc X XbXb bdXd Xaaa XXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01111101 01110101 11010111 11000101 1 10010011 11111011 011100011 10010101 01111101 10110101 11010101 11110010 11011101 10010101 101110111 11010101 1000100101 110111010 01110100 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; old is repeated.
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