This is an analysis of the poem Dennis Shand that begins with:

THE shadows fall along the wall,
It's night at Haye-la-Serre; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdXdefbfgbdXeaXaededhdfXidhXdejedhXhcidifXhbegigkefeheXeXXjXhdgdkgkgXhjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01110101 011111 01011111 010001 110101101 010111 11010101 010101 01111101 100101 11110101 010101 101111111 10110101 11010111 011111 01010101 011111 11011111 010111 11010111 110100 11110111 010101 11111101 1010101 11010101 011101 110010101 111101 11010111 010100 1101101111 111101 11011111 1111010 11011101 111111 11110101 110111 111011011 1111101 110110101 111111 010110101 011111 11010111 011101 11101101 111101 101011101 110011 101111101 111111 101111101 011101 101011111 101111 101110111 010111 110110101 1100100 101011101 110111 11011101 110110 01010111 110101 101111101 110101 101011111 011111 11011101 1101001 11110011 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2586
  • Average number of words per stanza: 479
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, there's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, there's are repeated.

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