This is an analysis of the poem On The Brink that begins with:
I WATCH’D her as she stoop’d to pluck
A wild flower in her hair to twine; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXbX ecec fgfg XbXb fefe dbdb hihi XiXi jdjd fkfk aeae kdkd lclcXlglg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 011000101 11101011 0101 10110101 11010101 11110001 1011 11110111 111100111 11111111 11111 11110111 110101110 01000011 11110 11011101 01111101 11111011 0101 10111100 11110101 11100001 0100 10111101 11010111 01111111 1111 11111101 01111101 11010111 0101 11110101 110101010 110011101 01010 11010111 110101110 10110101 01110 11010011 110111010 11101101 11010 10110111 010101101 101111111 11010 10111111 11010111 11110111 1101 01110101 11001111 111010101 0101 11111111 11010101 11011101 1101 01011111 110111110 11011101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; d, her, to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mad connects the lines.
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