This is an analysis of the poem Ursula that begins with:
There is a village in a southern land,
By rounded hills closed in on every hand.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd cce eeffaaXXgghXiiggbbddhh eeeeccggeeaajjfXfeeffaacck kccddllbbhheeaag gaaggccmmaaffb bjjaaccggfX iimmggaanngg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,22,26,16,14,11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001000101 11011011001 0111000101 1101110111 0101001101 01000101001 0101010101 1101010001 0101011101 1101010101 10110 10101 1001010101 11010101111 1101010101 1111100101 0101010101 1101011110 1001011110 1111000111 1001000101 0101110101 1101110101 10001110101 1101010111 1001110111 1101010001 0101110101 1111111101 1111100101 0101010101 1001000101 1101000101 1101011111 110010101110 1101100101 1101010101 0111101101 1111110101 0111000101 1101010011 1111010111 0010111101 0111111101 0001100011 1101010001 1111010111 1111000101 0101111100 1111010101 1111111011 1111111101 1111110111 1111110111 0101010101 0101011101 1001000101 11011111101 0101010111 1011010101 1111001101 1101110101 1111011101 0111110011 1001010001 1101010101 0101010111 1111010001 1111010001 1111110101 0111111101 0101111001 1101011111 11010100001 1101011111 1111011001 0101110011 0111010101 1101001111 0101010001 11011111110 01010001010 1101010011 01011001001 1111010111 1111010101 111001111 1101111101 0101111111 1011011111 1101010101 1101000111 1101110111 1111111111 1101110101 1111010001 0111010011 1111110001 0111010111 1111011001 01011101010 01010101010 1111000101 0101110011 1111110001 0101010111 1111111111 1101010101 1101000101 1111010111 1101010111 10101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, i, in, to, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase birth connects the lines.
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- summary of Ursula;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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