This is an analysis of the poem To The Rivals that begins with:
The lovely doe, far from her home, whose lover is angry—why did she
laugh? She laughed at the daughter of Edom and the daughter of Arabia who...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001110010101 111101001010100010011000101111011101111010011100100110010010011010010010001001100111011101110110011110 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 3
- Average number of symbols per line: 162 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 31
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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