This is an analysis of the poem The Splendor Falls that begins with:
The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaBB cbcbbB XdXdBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 110101010 01110101 1011001010 11011011010 1101010101010 11111111 110101010 11110111 010101010 11110101010 1101010101010 11110111 111111110 11010101 110101010 11011011010 1101010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; dying, blow are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word blow is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dying at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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