This is an analysis of the poem Bullington that begins with:
It was in the high midsummer, and the sun was shining strong,
And the lane was rather flinty, and the lane was rather long,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffgg HheX hhhh eeee HheX iiee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010011101011101 101110101011101 11110101010101 110010100110101 011011101010111 001011101010101 101110100011001 10101110110101 101111101011111 101011101010101 11100101110100111 001010101010100 1110101010101001 1010101001111001 101010101010101 101010101110101 101100101010001 101010100100111 1011001110111001 101010100110101 11011100010111 001000101010101 11010001010011 11011100010101 11111101010101 1010100101010101 101010101010111 101000100010101 101100101010001 111111101111111 110010101110111 1111010011101 111101111110111 100011101110101 111000111010101 101011101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, in, tiny, teeny, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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