This is an analysis of the poem Edom O' Gordon that begins with:
It fell about the Martinmas,
When the wind blew shrill and cauld,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab cdeX faaa fdaX bXag XaAa heAe bXid jhkh ddiX adbX jdaX adad XalX fdhd adaX aded alXX XdaX adeX Xdbd jdjX jfeX efjf kejX XaXX aheh feeX jgaX lbaX cdgX bdgd XXAd AXXX ahXh jbbX XXXX AAXX AAXXXhccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010100 1011111 110110001 111001 11011110 110111 1011011 011110 01110101 101111 111100101 1100101 111111011 1111111 10110101 110111 110100111 111101 0101010110 1101111 111101010 110101 110110101 010101 11110101 110101 110110101 010101 01100101 111111 01010110 110101 11111011 1011101 11000101 1011101 1101111 111101 011110111 011111 110111110 1101101 110011111 101111 1111111 111101 11111001 111101 110111110 0111011 11111001 111101 11011100 110111 1101111010 11100100 110110101 110101 11110101 111101 110001010110 110110 11011001 110101 11111111 111111 11110111 100101 110111111 1111110 11111111 0110010 11111101 111111 110101101 110111 11110101 110101 110111001 1010101 11111111 111111 11100101 010111 1110111111 0111011 11111101 111101 11110101 111111 11100101 1111001 11000101 1101001 11010101 110101 11010101 110001 11110101 100111 100111010 110111 111101110 110110 1101011001 110111 11111101 0101101 11111011 111111 110111101 101101 11011101 110100 10101110110 1100010 11011010 1101001 11110101 111011 01010101 111001 010101001 110101 11110111 1111001 110101001 111111 11110110 110111 11111101 111111 11111101 111111 111010001 111101 11111111 1111001 11011111 111101 11011101 110101 11010101 111101 110010111 111111 110010111 110011 1100011 110101 11000110 110011 1100011 110101 101010101 101111 11110111 110101 11000111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, see, i, down, winna, your, my, she, ye, her, he, as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words she, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', hame at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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