This is an analysis of the poem The Letters that begins with:
Still on the tower stood the vane,
A black yew gloomed the stagnant air,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX ececfgfg cfXfhhhh gigiagag jcjXkhkh hdhdjhjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 011100101 11010101 11010111 01011111 01010111 1010101111 011111010 111100101 11010101 11110111 11110101 11110111 11011101 11011101 11010101 110101001 01011101 11010110 11110101 11010101 11110111 11010101 00111111 11110111 110101010 11100101 101101010 101011101 11000101 11110101 01010001 11010101 11010001 11111111 111100100 11011111 11010101 11000101 11001101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11010111 01010101 11110101 101011101010 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, and, met, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, she, and, i, we are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Letters;
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