This is an analysis of the poem To Lady Jane that begins with:
Romance was always young.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXbac dedcdeC eddfXfccdgXgfccfC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 1101 1101 010011 1011011 111 010001 1101001 0111010 101 11010010 111 1011 110101 110011 0101001 1101 1111010100 01000010101 0101111 101 101111101 11 111101 0111 100101 1011 11010 010101 010101 110111 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hair at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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