This is an analysis of the poem The Crown Of Gold that begins with:
There was grief in the land, -
Fear and ill-omen:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbbc dedebfbf ghghijij eddkehkhlflX llkmkXX callacaaaa kikikX hhjjdd bniinbfiX bBnnkXkaikaXaX bbkkifiX bBnknkaaaacaXc ooabbaffhhmmhhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,12,7,10,6,6,9,14,8,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 11110 01111 0011010 101001 10110 1011101 1011001 101110 101111 001110 1111011 001010 101101 001010 100101 001010 11101 00111 10101 001001 110111 1001110 011111 101110 111100 001101 10100011 1110101 1111100 111101 111101 11111 11111 111010 101101 11101110 111101 110111 100101 1111 1110000 101100 1110010 111110 110111 11100111 01111 110111 1011110 10001 1011111 00101 111101 1111111 1110111 111111 1101111 101111 11111 1110101 10100101 11111010 1110 010101 101001 1011101 1110101 00101 11111 11011 11101 11101110 111111 001010 1110101 1011101 01101010 111001110 1011111 1111100 1010111 1011101 1111111 1011101 1111101 1111101 100101 0111 1010111 111101 1111 101111 1111011 1101110 111111 001010 10111 1011101 1110110 1111111 110111 111 111111 1011111 10101 111111101 10011010 1100101 0111 01010110110 1110111 10101 1011101 1011101 11101 11101 111010 11101010 110101 11001 010111 11110101 111011 0110011 0110011 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to, you, say, i, my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases dying, creeping connect the lines.
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