This is an analysis of the poem Dressing The Doll that begins with:
THIS is the way we dress the Doll:—
You may make her a shepherdess, the Doll, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba c AAA dbddX c eeeffgg c hhcccddggXfXfXfddd aabbb cXAAAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,5,1,7,1,18,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00011101 1110010001 011001001001 100011101 10 10111101 111101101 00011101 110101001 111101001 1010111001 111110101 110100100 10 111010111 10101001 11110101 110101001 10110111 01101001010 0101011010 10 101101010 101010110 1111101 111101101 00101000101 1111111 111101110 101011010 001101010 110100101 0111111010 011011111010 10100101 100110100 1111111 111001001 111011101 01100111101 111011101 1110010001 01100101001 0110110101 1111001001 10 10111101 111101101 00011101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; doll, as, and, of, that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines doll is repeated).
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