This is an analysis of the poem On The Boundary that begins with:
I Love the ancient boundary-fence,
That mouldering chock-and-log.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcaaaadXdaacA abcbXadA acacaaXa XXXXdaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 1100111 11110100 110111 11010011 1010011 11011101 011101 110101001 110101 01011101 010101 01110101 010101 11010111 0101001 11010101 111101 11010101 100101 11011111 110111 11011101 0101001 110111001 110001 01111111 010101 01111101 111101 11111101 010011 1111010 1110101 11010101 010010 01011101 110100 01010101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and, that, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fence is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word fence at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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