This is an analysis of the poem An Evening In Dandaloo that begins with:
It was while we held our races --
Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXabbacccX bbadedX ddafffX ggaeeXX ggafffX bbadddX ccahhhX ccabbbX ggahhhX eXahXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111110 10111000 10100 10101010 10100110 1110110 11111 11111110 10111110 11101 10101010 01111010 10001110 10100 11111010 10111110 10101 11101010 10101010 100111010 111000 11101010 10101010 100101 11111110 10111110 00110010 1001000 10111111 10101111 10101 10101010 10101010 100101010 101000 10101010 100111110 10101 10101010 10101010 11100010 10100 11101010 10111110 10101 10100010 100101010 10101010 10100 10101110 10111010 11101 00101010 10101010 10101010 10100 11111010 1010001110 11101 10101010 01101110 11111110 10100 00101110 10101110 10111 100101010 10111010 10101110 1011000 10101010 10111010 11101 10111110 10100010 100101110 101000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words made, at are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dandaloo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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