This is an analysis of the poem Village Song that begins with:
HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddaa eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101110 1111101001010 11101011101111 11101010101011 101001101110 10101010101110 001101011101010 010001011101110 1011010101010 010111011101010 110110011011010 110111011101110 010111011100010 010001010101010 110101011101110 110111010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, would, of, bridal are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words would, your, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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