This is an analysis of the poem A Walts With A Tear In It that begins with:
Ah, how I love it in these first few days,
Fresh from the forest and out of the snow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabba XXXaAa aXccddcc XeeXXd dccXAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001111 1001011001 100100101001 11001011001 11001011001 0101101101 1011011 0011110111 110100101 01010110100 1011011101 1111010111 1101001101 1001011101 11110101000 1001011101 1111101111 0011011011 0010001001 11110101001 1001000101 10010011010 10101111010 11010010110 10011010010 01010011010 10111010111 0101001101 1011001011 1111001001 1111010111 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, it, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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