This is an analysis of the poem A Valentine that begins with:
A Valentine The Bree was up; the floods were out
Around the hut of Culgo Jim: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcC deXdecC fgfggcX XhXhhcc ijijjcC cXckkcC ababbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110101 01010101 01011101 11010001 01100111 010101001 11001101 11100101 010100010 01011101 11000101 110101010 01011101 11001101 10011101 01110101 11010001 10010100 10110001 10011101 011111000 11110101 11010001 01110001 11110101 11010101 01010101 11001101 11010101 11011111 11111101 10110101 11010101 11010101 01001101 11011101 1111010 00111101 10110101 11011111 11010101 01001101 11110111 11110101 10010101 10111101 01110111 11111101 111101000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word valentine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase soul connects the lines.
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