This is an analysis of the poem Cousin Robert that begins with:
O COUSIN Robert, far away
Among the lands of gold, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbXb befe fcXc aghg fhXh hfff ebcb Xede cbcb ciXi jeke jbkb kfef chch jfff fbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11001111 111101 11010101 011101 11111100 111001 11111101 011101 11110101 111101 1110101001 1111001 11000101 011101 10111111 110111 01111101 010101 11110101 111101 110111010 010111 01011001 110101 10110111 100111 110101001 110101 11001111 110101 01111111 110101 01111101 110101 11101111 101111 01100111 111101 01011011 110111 1111011 111111 11111101 011101 01010011 1100011 11010111 1111111 10011011 110001 10011011 111111 10011101 110101 11010101 110101 10110111 010101 11010101 111101 11111101 110111 11011101 011111 11111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; so, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, upon are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stone is repeated).
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