Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - I by Charles Stuart Calverley: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - I that begins with:

Ere the morn the East has crimsoned,
When the stars are twinkling there,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbcb dXdXcXXe aeaefefe XgXgcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011100 10111001 1100111 1110110 10101110 111001001 10100010 0011101 10101010 1110111 11101110 1010111 11101110 1100110 101001100 1110101 11101010 11101010 10100010 01101010 1010110101 1010101 11100011 1110101 11101010 1110101 11111010 10111001 10111110 11101011 100111110 10111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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