This is an analysis of the poem An Idyll Of Dandaloo that begins with:
On Western plains, where shade is not,
'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccdedebX ababXX XfafbX ggggbX fhfheX XabXii jfjkaX lelebX mimiaa lblbbX abaXhX lflkbX fefebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010101 11011101 11010100 01011101 01010101 01110111 11010001 01010001 01010100 01010101 01011100 11010001 01011101 11010101 01011101 1101010100 01010100 10110111 01010101 11010001 01001100 01110111 11110100 11010101 11010111 101010111 01011101 11010111 11111100 101011100 11101101 00010111 01011111 11111111 101111010 01010100 11011001 110010111 11011101 01011111 11011111 11011101 11010101 11000101 1110101100 1110101 0101011010 11011011 11010101 01010111 11110101 11101011 01011100 11010101 11110101 11010101 11001101 11011101 01011101 01110001 11011101 01111111 01110101 11010001 01110100 11010101 11110111 11110100 01000100 101001110111 111111010 11110101 11110101 11010111 11010100 11010101 01010100 11011101 11011101 11110111 010010111 11010101 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; we, in, and, they, i, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, he 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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