This is an analysis of the poem A Peal Of Bells that begins with:
Strike the bells wantonly,
Tinkle tinkle well;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbcbcdeecdff aegegdhhdhfhggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100 10101 1111110 10101 1111101 1110101 11010001 01011100 1110101 1011111 1011101 111001010 1010101 1110111 010110101 101100 111 11010001 101 11010101 111101 01110101 11011111 01110011 10110111 01110101 01110001 01010101 11010101 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word strike at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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