This is an analysis of the poem A Song : On The Green Margin that begins with:
On the green margin of the brook,
Despairing Phyllida reclined,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcbddb efXfeef bfbfggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110001 01010001 1100111001 01010001 11110111 10010101 11111101 11011101 11111101 11111101 010001 01100101 11011111 111101010 01110101 01111101 01111101 111101 111100010 11010101 010001010 11010110 11010101 11111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
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