This is an analysis of the poem Dialogue In Verse that begins with:
_Jack._ Seest thou not yon farmer's son?
He hath stoln my love from me, alas!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccXcd cdcd edef gdgd hiXi jkjk Xibi gaga bbXbd dhdh ded edidi ihih dadaff gdgddd k kkk eXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,3,5,4,6,6,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 111110101 11111101 11010101 11110111 11011101 11010101 1111101 11110111 110101111 10010111 111100101 11110101 1001010101 111011101 11011100 1110101111 11010101 11010111 010101101 101101110 1110101 10110101 11111001 1111111101 11010111 1110101 1111111 110110101 110101101 01111111 1111101 111111001 1110111 11111111 11011001 10011011101 1001101 01110110 1111100111 1111001 111011001 111011010 11110111 111101110 100111101101 11111111 11111111 111111100 11011110 01010101 11011101 01011101 11001101 110100110 10111101 1111001010 111111101 11011111 11010101 01010101 110101110 111101110 110111101 10111101 001111101 11110110 11111111 11110111 100111111111 11111110101 10101011101 11101011011 100111110111010 11111111001 1111111011 101111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; or, i, and, you, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dialogue In Verse;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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