This is an analysis of the poem Ribblesdale that begins with:
Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba ccdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111011 1111101101 0011011101 1111001111 1110111111 1101111111 1101111111 11011110111 1101111111 1101111101 001101111001 0101111111 1110110011 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, to are repeated.
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- summary of Ribblesdale;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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