This is an analysis of the poem L'An Trentiesme De Mon Eage that begins with:
And I have come upon this place
By lost ways, by a nod, by words,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fefe ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11110111 11011111 11010001 11010101 11000101 11110001 1101000110 11110101 01010101 110011101 01111011 11010111 01110101 11010001 01011101 11110011 11010101 00110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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