This is an analysis of the poem A June-Tide Echo that begins with:

After a Richter Concert.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXbc dXdb bdbd ecec fgfg haha idid jkjk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010 0011110111 1011110101 10111001101 1111011001 11001001001 010011111 1101110101 111100111 0011001111 111101101 0011101111 101100011 1101111011 1100100101 0001001111 00110101101 1111101001 0110101111 0110110101 0111100111 1111100111 011101111 110110101 1101100111 1011100100 011110101 0110110101 111111101 1111110101 1100110101 110010011 1100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', for, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sweet, now, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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