This is an analysis of the poem Ring Out , Wild Bells that begins with:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cccc deed fggf hffh dbbd fddXXadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 01010101 01010001 11111111 11011001 11010101 01010111 11011001 11011101 11111111 11010111 10010111 11010101 11010101 10010101 01010101 11010101 01010001 11111101 11010100 11110111 01010101 10010111 10010100 11110101 110100101 11010101 10010001 10010111 01010101 11010001 10011000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wild, ring, out, in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, ring are repeated.
The author used the same word ring at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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