This is an analysis of the poem To My Bride (Whoever She May Be) that begins with:
Oh! little maid! - (I do not know your name
Or who you are, so, as a safe precaution... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbXee fgfggg hdhdaa fbfbii jejedX bXbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 11111101010 1111010101 11011010110 101101010111 110111010111 1101010111 01000101110 1100010101 1111001111000 110101010101 110111010101 1111010101 10011111010 0101000101 0111110100110 01110111010 11110001100 10010101001 01111100010 110111001111 01010101010 110101010111 011101010111 1101110111 11011011010 1111010101 01111111010 11010101010 11111101010 1101111110 01010100010 01110101001 01110101110 00011100110 01011011101000 1111110101 01000101110 100111001 11110110010 01000111110 11010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, from, him, for, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, oh are repeated.
The author used the same word you'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, him, it are repeated).
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