This is an analysis of the poem The Gallant Peter Clarke that begins with:
On Walden's Range at morning time
The sun shone brightly down;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb debe bfgf edfd cdfd dhgh XgXg biXi Xdgd gjjX Xggg eXdd fgXg dkgk hlfl gldg giXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 011101 01010101 110001 010100101 110111 010101001 010111 11010101 010101 010111111 110101 10101101 011001 11010101 110101 11111101 0101011 11001101 111001 11110101 1110101 101010111 010001 11110111 010101 111101110 010101 11010101 110101 11110111 1110101 11101111 110111 11111101 1111101 111110111 111101 01110101 0111010 11111101 010101 10110111 110101 1101010 110101 11010101 1010101 11111101 111101 110011101 011101 11011101 0010101 01010101 001101 100101 110101 10011101 111101 101010101 010101 101010101 010111 11011101 111101 110111010 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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