This is an analysis of the poem The Mill that begins with:
WINDING and grinding
Round goes the mill: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAbcbcbBB AdadababBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 1101 10110 11011 11010 1111 11110 1111 101101101 1011011011 10110 1101 11010 1001 11110 1111 11110 1101 101101101 1011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; winding, and, grinding are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word winding is repeated.
The author used the same word winding at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word still at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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