This is an analysis of the poem When Runnels Began To Leap And Sing that begins with:
When runnels began to leap and sing,
And daffodil sheaths to blow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececXfXf fgfghchc fXfXXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010111 1101101 11001011101 1110101 0011101111 1100101 011010101 110001 1011110101 101000101 1101100101 11000111 00111111110 111000111 01011000101 11011101 1011100101 11101101 1101100101 1101001 110100111 11111101 0110110111 10100101 10101101001 11001010 110110111 00100101 0011100101 1101101 001101001001 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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