This is an analysis of the poem Defiance that begins with:
Catch her and hold her if you can--
See, she defies you with her fan,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110011 11011001 11011101 010011011 11011101 11011101 10001101 11110101 01111101 11110101 01110111 01010101 101101001 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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