This is an analysis of the poem A Farewell To Ole Bull that begins with:
There was a fountain in my heart
Whose deeps had not been stirred;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb abcb bdXd eaaa afef egeg hiiX Xgig XdXd XgXXXhaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 111101 01110011 111101 01000001 011111 01010100 010101 110011101 11001110 00101111 1111010 01100111 010001 11010111 110111 110011101 010101 110110101 101111 11011111 110111 11001101 110111 11101101 111101 11000101 0100110 110101000 010111 1100101010 110011 11011101 0101110 01011001 1000010 010001010 110101 010001100 110100 110101001 010101 11001101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; my, of are repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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