This is an analysis of the poem The Castle In Austria that begins with:
From 'The Boy's Wonderhorn'
There lies a castle in Austria,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcb dbEb XfbX GbEX bdbX fdgX gdXX XddX hiiX fdXX jgcX bXgX GXjh gbXX dgdX dXggXdgag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100 110100100 110001 11010111 0101011 01110011 1111111 110101001 1101101 01010100 0101011 11110111 011000 11010101 110111 110101001 1101110 01010101 1111001 11111101 11101110 11011111 111111 111010101 0110101 101110101 1111001 01001001 111011 110110010 1010011 11110101 0101101 11100101 1010111 11010101 1011010 11101111 110111 11010100 010101 11111111 11110111 110011101 01101010 01010101 1010111 11111101 1110100 11010101 1111101 110111101 1110100 10110101 111101 11111101 111110 11111101 111001011 1101001001 101011101 11111101 10110110 11001101 101101 10011101 110111 100100100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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