This is an analysis of the poem The Crystal Cabinet that begins with:
The Maiden caught me in the wild,
Where I was dancing merrily;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX abab XcXc Xdad Xaaa eebe aaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001 11110100 111000100 111100101 01000101 11110101 1010100001 101010101 01010111 010100010 01011101 1010101010 01010101 01010101 11100101 110101001 11010111 11110111 11010101 11011101 11010101 01011101 11010100 11010101 01010101 11010101 10010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; me, and, another are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, another, o are repeated.
The author used the same word another at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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