This is an analysis of the poem Squire Norton's Song that begins with:
The child and the old man sat alone
In the quiet, peaceful shade... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedefafX bgbXbgbg dedehXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011101 0010101 0011111101 0011101 01011101 110001 101011101 110111 11011100 011111 11110111 010101 01011101 110111 11110101 110101 10010111 010101 11011101 111101 1010101001 100101 01010101 110111 11010111 1100001 11001101 011111 01010011 101101 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
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