This is an analysis of the poem 'Twixt The Wings Of The Yard that begins with:
Hear the loud swell of it, mighty pell mell of it,
Thousands of voices all blent into one:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdede cededeee febegehe ibabceie ibbbaece hbbbceae Xjgjcefe aacaheae cbhbkeke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101100101100 1001011001 111101100101 1011001101 100101101101 1111011011 101101101101 1011001001 111101101101 11011011101 110101101101 1111011101 101101101101 1111101011 101101101101 1001101001 101101101101 1011001011 11110111110 01011111001 111111111101 1011011011 1110100110100 1001101001 101100110100 1001010110 110000110100 1001101101 1110101110101 1011001011 110100111100 1101111011 1001101100110 1111111001 111101101100 101110101 111100110100 1111111101 100101101101 1001101001 0111100100100 1011011001 110101100101 1001101001 101101101001 1111011011 111110110110 11110101001 111111111111 1111001101 010110011010 111111011011 101101110101 1011101001 110101101101 1001011001 111100111100 1111001001 101101100101 1001011011 111100111100 100111101 100100101100 1001011001 110100101100 1111111101 110100100100 1101001011 001111110111 1111001001 110101101111 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, em, and, i, it, that, he, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word yard at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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