This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Bower that begins with:
SAY, is it day, is it dusk in thy bower,
Thou whom I long for, who longest for me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadadeeeeadadababacacfgfgababXebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010110 1111111011 10010011110 1101011101 11110110110 1011101001 10110011010 11011011001 11111010110 1101111001 101110101010 1101111001 11110011010 11011001101 110011110010 11101011011 10111110110 0101011111 11011011010 1011011101 10011011010 11011111001 111111111110 11011101101 10011010110 11011011001 100101101010 1101111001 11011110110 01111011001 11011010110 010101011001 11111010110 1111111101 10111111010 1011001010 1110111001011 11011101011 111101010011 101011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1865
- Average number of words per stanza: 366
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, love's, thy, my, in, one, day are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase free connects the lines.
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