This is an analysis of the poem Before The World Was Made that begins with:
If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXbbB XbcbcbXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 10111 101110 110101 0101010 110001 01010111 010111 10110101 1111010 1110101 11101 1111110 111001 11110111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word made at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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