This is an analysis of the poem Scrubber that begins with:
She's tall and gaunt, and in her hard, sad face
With flashes of the old fun's animation... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbcbece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111100111 01000111010 110011101010 1001110101 1111010111 1100110101 1101010111 1101011101 0101010111 1101010101 1001111101 1001100101 1001011111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.
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