This is an analysis of the poem Lucy's Song that begins with:

How beautiful at eventide
To see the twilight shadows pale,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc XdXdeeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001100 01011111 110011111 101111111 11010101 11011111 010011101 10010001 0111 1101 110100 01001 01101 11101 01011 011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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