This is an analysis of the poem Her Praise that begins with:

SHE is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I have gone about the house, gone up and down... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcdadaaeaeadfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110111111 11101011111 10111110011 1011110011 11111011111 01011001011 01010111111 0110000011 1111011001 10110111111 10111011011 11101101111 11010000111 1001010111 01010110101 10110100010011 1111111111 01011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 848
  • Average number of words per stanza: 173
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of Her Praise;
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  • history of its creation;
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