This is an analysis of the poem The Periwinkle Girl that begins with:
I've often thought that headstrong youths
Of decent education,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dada efef cgcX dbdb hihi XaXa eiei fXfX jXjX cgcX eXek fbfb agaX ekek eXeX jXjX dadX fbfb hfhfXjbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 0101010 01010101 0101010 01010101 0100010 10010101 1111010 11111101 1101010 11010111 1100010 1010011101 0100010 101011101 11011100 01110101 1101010 11001101 1100010 11111111 1110110 11111101 0101010 11110111 11011010 11110111 0101010 01010101 1101010 01111101 1101010 11111111 1101010 11010011 110011 10010101 1101110 11010111 0100100 11010101 1111111 11010101 1101000 11011101 1100100 01110101 0100010 01100101 0101010 01000101 1001010 01011001 0101110 11010101 1101000 10101110011 1101110 11010101 1100110 101110101 10010110 1010101011 1101010 11110101 11010100 10101110101 01011000 01111111 10000110 11110101 11011100 11010001 0101010 01111001 01010010 01011101 1101110 11011011 1101110 01010111 1101010 11001101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, a, we, the, she are repeated.
The author used the same word duke at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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