This is an analysis of the poem Dora that begins with:
It was, I well remember, the merry springtime when
Young Dora in the eventide came singing up the glen, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaee XXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010010111 11000100110101 10111011110101 001010100110111 01010110111101 11111101110011 1100111101111 101011101011101 1101010110111 101010111110101 1101011110101 110011111110101 1101110111100 11011101110101 1101011110101 001110111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; happy, that, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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