This is an analysis of the poem She Shall Not Guess that begins with:
Even if I died no sound should tell it her.
Death babbles, but the calm of her dear eyes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbabcdefdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011111100 1101010011 0111111111 0111000101 1111100001 1100001100 10011001001 01011101101 0101110101 1011010011 11010010101 1111000101 1111010111 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of She Shall Not Guess;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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