This is an analysis of the poem Gentle Alice Brown that begins with:
It was a robber's daughter, and her name was ALICE BROWN,
Her father was the terror of a small Italian town;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX aaee ffgg ggXX eeXX hhii eeiX jjgg ffcX eeee ddff XekX aagg kkii ddkX hheeXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101011101 01010100010101 010101011100011 100000101010101 11010101010111 010011001100111 11010111111011 11110101000100110 110010101110100 11110111010101 01000101010101 01011011010001 11010101110101 01111100010101 111010101010001 01111101010001 10101001011111101 001011101010001 0101010001010100 01111000110111100 1011100101010001 101011001010101 11010100110101 110101010101010 01010101110101 111010110110011 01010101010101 11111100110101 100011101110011 11011101110101 11001101110101 111111010101110 10100101011010111 11110111110001 11010100110101 11100101110101 101010100010101 11011101110101 110101001110110 110111111111110 101001101101010111 00010101111101 11011100101111 001001100010001 101010101110101 11010100010011 11010011010011 11011100010011 11010100100100 11000111010000 10110101010011 110111010101010 01011111010101 11010101010101 01110101111101 11010101010100 01011101010101 111010101110101 101011101011001 11110101100101 101010101110111 101110101011101 01000101010101 1110101011100010 11110100010101 11010100111101 11010101111101 11010101011101 11010101110001 11011100010001 01110101010101 101001100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- 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; her, house, little, i've, as, at, his, to, i, he, and, him, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, i've, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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