This is an analysis of the poem Prelude - Lohengrin that begins with:
Love, out of the depth of things,
As a dewfall felt from above,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bXbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 10101001 001011001 1 1100111 0110100 1110101 10100111 01110101 1101101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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