This is an analysis of the poem To Her Whose Name that begins with:
To her whose name,
With its sweet sibilant sound like sudden showers... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cbbc deed fggf dhhd ijji ckkcXdfkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 001100111010 1001110 11110101 0011 01011010101 101101 1001010001 11001 1011000111 110111 1101011111 11010 1001101101 110101 11110011010 111 0011000101 110101 1111110101 1101 1111100101 1101111 11110101101 0001 1011110111 100101 0111011101 1111 0111010100 001111 001101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words to, whose at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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