This is an analysis of the poem In Country Sleep that begins with:
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Never and never, my girl riding far and near...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcbbd ebfXgef dcfcddf hbebhhe edideei ddjdddj gkbkeeb fgegffe ededeeg X Xbbggg ieeiiX dfXXld ieeggi jmXaej mjjaaa XbbnnXXlbbfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 101101110111 001001011101 110110100101 101101011011 1111 1001001100111 011100100101 101101111111 11100100111 0011111001101 0001001110010 1101 01010010110111 0010011110111 1010010010101 111100111101 0010101111011 110010110111 1111 1011001000101 101101101101 101111010111 1101101111111 11100010101001 1100111111001 0011 011011010011 010111001101 010101110001 1010001001001 001100110101 0110101111011 1011 0111101100101 101100010111 110011010011 1010100101101 1100110111101 0100101101101 1010 100110100101 010111101111 101111100101 0010101101011 111111110011 1001011010101 1011 1100101110101 011010101111 111111111001 011111010111 001011011001 0010111111011 0101 0111110101101 1011011011011 1011110110111 101011011101 1100101101010 001011011101 1011 1111000101111 1011101001010 1 1101110101010 1010011100101 0101001111101 1101 1001110100101 010101110011 1011010100111 0011001011011 010011101011 0101 00100011101001 0010101010100 101000111001 1001011101010 010111010010 0100 100101110101 1111101111011 010100100111 1101010011011 1010101101101 0011 100100101001 1110101000011 010111011011 1001010010110 110111111110 1001 1101001111001 0111011010101 1010100010010 1101010010011 1011101110011 1101 1001010101101 110111011111 1010110110110 1101011011101 1011111101001 1101 011011101001 1101000101100 101010011011 1011011110111 1101111101111 1101 11110101011111 1111010110011
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, in, as, falls, of, to, her, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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