This is an analysis of the poem Good Little Girls that begins with:

Although of native maids the cream,
We're brought up on the English scheme -... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdddceeccfgggf hhhh ggggXgggXeeegieXei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,4,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11110101 0101 1111 110001 11011011 01010111 01010101 111111 01101101 11110111 0111 1101 010101 11010101 01010101 10110101 010011 11011101 11010101 11111101 10110100 11111111 01001001 0111 1101 110100 11111111 11010101 11010101 11010100 11011111 01010101 0101 1101 010111 01001101 01010100 11010101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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