This is an analysis of the poem The Limnad that begins with:
The lake she haunts gleams dreamily
'Twixt sleepy boughs of melody,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccccb X dddbeeeeb X fffgccccg X fffffffXf a XXXgXXXfg aXfffgddddg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111100 11010100 11010101 0101110 1010111 1010101 1010111 1011101 1110010 1 1010111 10011101 1111100 10001110 1010101 1010111 0010111 1110111 00111110 1 1011111 1011101 1010101 10101110 1011101 11111011 10100011 1110101 11101010 1 111110101 11011001 11110111 0111010 10010101 1001101 01101001 10100100 1010110010 1 001100 101010 101100 10101110 101010 101010 111000 1011111 11111110 1 1110111 0011101 1010001 00111110 0010101 1011101 1010100 1011101 11100110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases murmuring, rocks connect the lines.
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