This is an analysis of the poem Up And Down The Lanes Of Love that begins with:

UP and down the lanes of love,
With the bright blue skies above,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddd Aaeeffbbdd Aaggddhhii Aaddjjkkgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 0011101 1010111 1111111 1110111 1111101 1011101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1110101 0011101 1110111 0010101 1011101 1110101 1010111 1010110 1111110 1110101 1110101 1110101 1011101 10100101 1110111 1111101 10111010 11101010 1011101 1010111 1110101 1011101 1011111 1111101 1111111 1011101 1010100 1010101 1111011 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, we are repeated.

    The author used the same word up at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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