This is an analysis of the poem The Angler's Ballad that begins with:
AWAY to the brook,
All your tackle out look, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddXaaX eefggf ffhhhh iibggb ggjccj cciffi ffbkkb kkilli kkekke kkciic iibccb ccgddg hXXkkX mmgbbg nnekke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 111011 1011010110 111101 110101 0111011010 11011 101011 0110010110 110111 011001 1110010100 11011 101001 0011110110 1110111 010001 1011010010 11111 111101 0110111110 011001 101001 1110010110 01011 111111 1111111010 110111 001111 0010011110 111101 111101 1110111110 111011 111001 0100110110 01111 101111 1110110011 111110 101011 11100100011 11111 0110001 1110011110 111001 100101 1111010010 01101 111101 1111110011 001011 111101 1010110111 01001 001101 1010110110 11111 101001 1010110010 11101 111001 1011110110 111011 111111 1011110010 11111 110101 10100011110 111001 101111 0010111010 11011 101111 1010010010 111011 011001 1010011010 11111 101010 1110110110 111111 111011 1111111011 11011 101001 111001001 101011 011111 101011011 11111 111111 1110111010 101011 111011 0010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, and, your, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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