This is an analysis of the poem Sparrow Hills that begins with:
Breasts beneath kisses, as though under a tap!
Summer’s stream won’t run for ever....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbc dbdb ebbbXdeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111001 10111110 1111001001 1101001010 1101100100 110101001 1110111001 1100100111 11110110 010011111 111001010 11110111 10101011 011011001 010111010 011011011 100110010 011110101 1011001011 101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; no, in, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words beyond, so are repeated.
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