This is an analysis of the poem An English Girl that begins with:

A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,
In her magnificent comeliness,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabcbcdedXFFGG bbaaXhXhihihFFGG iiffbjbjgegeFFGG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101 0001001000 01101001011 111100101 110011111 010011101010 100101111 110101010 110010111 110111110 0101101010 10110100100100 11011101 11111101 11111111 1011100101 0011111001 11111111 11111101 0110101101 111111101 100101010 110110100 1101111010 110110101 0101101010 110111111 0101101010 11011101 11111101 11111111 1011100101 010110101 110011101 011100101 0010110111 10010101 0100101010 110100111 1101111110 01110111 0101101010 111110101 1111001010 11011101 11111101 11111111 1011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; she, and, maids, her, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, to, her are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word girl at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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