This is an analysis of the poem The Star-Apple Kingdom that begins with:
There were still shards of an ancient pastoral
in those shires of the island where the cattle drank ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXaddedfXdaebghghdijhdXdXgcdX khlagdlkmdaekdnXhfdobdbpbajj jojgddheedXfggeegXebjddddgjbXadafej dngopgdegdhfdgcXgakekedbdb dXeedljgeedcjdjqrXgjgdahddgsajX ddoeperhjdfoiddeejdqdsghgmddjXaek
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,28,35,26,31,33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110110100 011001010101 1101101101 01001011101101 1001110010001 010101110011 100110001101 1100111101111 1011011011101 010101111001 010110001100100 11101001011010 11001010010 0111100111010 001010110010 110111010110 01010110010110 10000101100100 1101100001 101110011 10010010001011 01001011001 011011111101 010010100011 1001001010011 11011011001 010100101101 01101011100 1110010011101 0100111001001 1010100101011 1001110010001 110100101011 0110110110001 01101001001101 1010010101001111 101110101000010 101010101000100 010001010010 11001100101 011110010110 11111001001 11111100010 01101011010 0101001 10100100101 11010110001 1010100110100 11000101001 011110110101 100100101011 110101010010 0001001001111 010100011001 1010010010001 011000101101 10101010111 110001110100 01001111100101 0010101101 1110011101 1111010010 11001001001001 00101110011 111001110101 1010010010101 011010011011 010101100101 01001011001001 110110001010 11010110100 110110100110 0110101011110 010110010 1011110011010 10111111010 1101001011010 01011001101 011111101001 11001001011110 10100101101 01011010011 101110111010 001100101111 0100010101 0101111101 101110011010 110101010001010 0010100100110 1011101 0010010001011 010100100110 10110011110 010010011101 00110101111 01011111001 111101110001 11110111101 010110111110 1100101001 110001000101 010101101111 010011011 111001001101 10110010101010 010100010110 01101010110 00110010110 1010100110101 0101111001 11011101000 01010010010010 1100110010 1110110110 101011100101 010100110100 110101101111 1001100110010 010101011111 010110111100 1101000101011 0101000100010 01010001011000100 10101000010010 110101000101 110101110011 010100010010 010101111010010 00101011010001 00100110101 01100110101 1010001011100 011100101001 01011111101 1010010001011 11001110110001 1101111101010 10110101111010 01111010010 10111010101 10101111001 110110011011 1011001010100 1111111010100 10110010010 0011110010110 101000011101010 010110101010 110111101 0011000010011 110010010001010 110100101000 1111001010011 01101000011 011010101010 1000101011011 011000110111001 11010101011 101010101110010 011010011010 1110101110 01110001001 01101010011 001010010010 1101000101 010010010110 1101101011 011010010111 1010011010011 1100100010010 1111100100010 000100010010010 111101100110 10100111101 010111111101 11101101011 111001010011011 11001000110100 10111 100100011110110 11100001011001 11100110001110 11001011111 1100111111 00100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1510
- Average number of words per stanza: 260
- Amount of lines: 185
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, parish, and, to, that, he, black, without, wanted are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the, of, that, and, she are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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