This is an analysis of the poem The Lyon And The Gnat that begins with:
To the still Covert of a Wood
About the prime of Day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab aaaXa acaac adaXd efeef ghggh aiaai jhjjh hehhe hghXgXhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00110001 010101 01010001 01011101 110101 01110101 100101 11010001 110101100 110101 11110001 010101 11010101 11001101 111101 10010111 111101 11110101 01010110 110101 11010111 010101 11010111 11100101 111001 010010111 110001 01000101 01010111 101001 01011101 111101 01000101 11011111 101101 11110111 111111 101100001 11110101 110101 01010111 110101 11110101 11010101 111101 01111101 010001 11111101 01010101 111101 1101110101 1001000111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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