This is an analysis of the poem Zilpha Marsh that begins with:

At four o'clock in late October
I sat alone in the country school-house...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbaXXccdcecXebcXXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 1101001011 10011101 11100111101 11000100101 0010110011 00101001010 011011110010 1111111 11111001001 101010010011 110001001011 1111001110 000101011 11010101 10101111 101011010 010110100 1101011001 111001011 1011111101 1101011111 111101111 10011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 934
  • Average number of words per stanza: 172
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.

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