This is an analysis of the poem Twelve Tree Barrow that begins with:
When the moths are flitting, and the fields are still,
'Ware the darkling shadows on the haunted hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbeebXccbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010111 10101110101 1010111111010 1010101 1010101 101110 101001111001 101111110101 11101111110 1110101 1010101 101110 10101011101 111110111101 1111101111010 10100111 1010101 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'ware, trooping are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word barrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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