This is an analysis of the poem Shadows that begins with:
A LITTLE trellis stood beside my head,
And all the tiny fruitage of its vine ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcac bdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 1101010001 10010010011 1111011111 0101111101 11010011111 1111111111 0111 1101011001 1101010101 1111011111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Shadows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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