This is an analysis of the poem The Little Dell that begins with:
Doleful was the land,
Dull on, every side, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc adadaeae afafgcgc hahaeaea hihiejej aaaackck dhdhgXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 111001 10111 10111 10101 11101 010101 10111 10111 10111 10101 100101 10101 00101 10101 101001 010111 10111 11111 010101 10001 10110 010101 111101 10001 11101 010101 001001 10101 10101 11001 10111 10101 10101 11111 10111 10001 10111 10101 11111 11101 10111 10101 10111 10101 10101 10101 00101 010101 11101 111011 10111 11111 10111 11101 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Little Dell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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