This is an analysis of the poem Tear that begins with:
Far away from birds and herds and village girls,
I was drinking, kneeling down in some heather ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXbc bcaa aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111101 11101010110 010111010 011011111 11110100111 10110011011 1011001001 11010111010 111111110111 10110101010 0111011 1000100111110 010001100100101 0100111010101 1101011111 0111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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