This is an analysis of the poem Lovers And A Reflection that begins with:
In moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter
(And heaven it knoweth what that may mean;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX acac dede afaf fbfb gfXf gXgf fhXh afaX gigX fgXX XbXb fXfX Xiaiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101010 1100101111 1011001110 1110100101 11110110010 111101111 1110010110010 1101101001 101001010 101101101 11001001010 1101101111 10111011010 1111011110 1110010110010 111100101 11011011010 1111010101 1111011110 101110111 11001011110 0100101101 101001101000 1100110111 111001110 111101111 11011111010 1101100111 111101101110 1100110111 1111001100 1010101100 11111011010 10101101101 11011001010 1101110101 11011101010 1100100111 101101111110 1100100100 1001001010 0101011110 111101101011 11011101000 01001011010 1101100101 11111001010 011101101 1101001110 111101110 101001001110 1101100101 101011011110 1101101101 101001001010 1101101101 1100110111 11101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, in, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, boats, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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