This is an analysis of the poem Staff Nurse: New Style that begins with:
Blue-eyed and bright of face but waning fast
Into the sere of virginal decay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbaXXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 0001010001 1101110111 1011111100 1011010001 1001010101 1101010001 0101011101 11100110000 1101101111 1111010101 1100011000 1111111101 11010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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