This is an analysis of the poem The Eumerella Shore that begins with:
There's a happy little valley on the Eumerella shore,
Where I've lingered many happy hours away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bbaCA dbdb eeaCA fbfbXbbacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101010001 111010101001 111010101110101 1110010001 0110111 110111 10100010101 111010101010101 10101010001 101110101011101 11101110101 111010100010001 11101110101 1110101 1010111 11100110101 111010101010101 10101010001 011010101010111 1101110101 11001100110111 1100010101 0110011 1010101 11101010101 1010010101010101 10101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; running, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
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