This is an analysis of the poem Written At Tivoli Falls, (Near Albany) that begins with:

Sweet Tivoli! upon thy grassy side,
Whene'er I linger through the summer day,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdee fafabb gagacc dfdXgg fdXdaaXfbfbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100011101 10011010101 10110011001 11010101001 11011111011 110101111101 10011110111 1111110011 1111010011 1011110001 1111110101 0011011011101 11110110011 1111011101 1111101101 1111001101 1111010111 0111001110101 1111110101 01110100101 11110101111 1100111101 1011010011 011101110111 1111100101 1011011101 11011101001 10111101100 1111000101 111101111101 11110011001 1101010101 11011000110 00100100101 01111101001 0100101110101 1111111100 1011001101 11010110011 0101000101 1111011101 1111010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; thy, my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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