This is an analysis of the poem Carillon that begins with:
In the ancient town of Bruges,
In the quaint old Flemish city,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBccaaadA XXceecfffggaA XaddeegaaXgaB aaXaeeaffahhh deideidaaggggaa XXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,13,13,15,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 00111010 10101010 11111010 1111111 11010101 1010011 00100010 00101010 10110010 101001110 101001110 10101010 10101010 10101010 1010101 1011001 1111111 01101010 10111010 10101010 00101010 10111010 11111010 1110101 11010001 11101010 100110010 10001010 10101110 10101010 00101010 11101010 11101010 00111010 1111111 1010101 1011100 01011110 0010001 1010101 10111010 1110101 10010101 1111111 10010111 11001101 1010101 1010101 1011101 0010101 1011101 1100101 01110111 11000101 0010100 1111111 1010001 1111101 10101110 010011010 111101001 1010101 11111111 01010101 10000101 0011101 11100010 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; silence, of, his, and, hears, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, low, silence, mingled are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bruges at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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