This is an analysis of the poem The Song In The Dell that begins with:
I KNOW a way
Of hearing what the larks and linnets say: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa Aabba Aacca Aadda Aaeea Aaffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101 0101011101 0110011101 0100010101 1101010101 1101 0101010111 1110011101 1101010101 1111110001 1101 0101010101 1100010101 1111010101 01001110001 1101 0101011101 11110111110 11000111010 1111110101 1101 0101000111 1100010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101 0101101101 1101111101 1100010101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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