This is an analysis of the poem Valley Song that begins with:

Your eyes and the valley are memories.
Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccX XacXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101100 1110101001 0110101100101 011110101111 1111011010 101101010 10110100100 1010111101 111111 1111011110 1001110010 1101010111 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • 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; i, again are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, it, i, these are repeated.

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