This is an analysis of the poem A Vision Of Repentance that begins with:
I saw a famous fountain, in my dream,
Where shady path-ways to a valley led;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcdbb dbdbee XcXXff gbgbbb chchbb ffaa iidD jjjX bbbX aadX eX jjkkiidd aaffjXdDbbddXX Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,2,8,14,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011 1101100101 0101110111 1101010101 1101011111 100101110011 0111110100 10010100101 1101111111 1001110011 10001111101 011101010101 0111110111 1111110111 1111110111 11010101101 1101010101 101101110101 1101010110 1011110101 1111011101 1101010110 0101111111 1100110101101 0111101101 1101011101 010011101001 11010101011 0011001101 100101010101 0100111011 1111010101 01011101001 1100110111 1111010101 100111011101 1111101 01110101 11010101 11010111 1111111 01000100 11111101 01101100 01011101 01111011 1010011001 111111000 11111101 110000101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11001101 11010101 01110101 11010101 111101010 10110100 01011101 100101011 10010101 01010101 11001101 100100111 11010101 10110111 01001111 11110101 11101101 11011100 01110101 11111001 01101100 0111001 11010101 01111101 10110101 11010100 110100101 11011111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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