This is an analysis of the poem The Blue Peter that begins with:
Last night when I left her my true love was weeping
For sorrow at parting, but parting must be: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababab acac bbab dcdcXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111110 11011011010 111011110010 011010111001 1011010011010 01101001101 1011010011010 101001011001 011011011010 01101001101 111010011010 11101111101 1110101110101 1101001010 110101110010 111101001 100110100110 101101001101 110010110010 01111001001 11101010110 01110001011 0011010110110 101001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, be, we, ye, ll, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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