This is an analysis of the poem He Lived At Dingle Bank that begins with:
He lived at Dingle Bank - he did; -
He lived at Dingle Bank;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdd acXcee afffgg aeXeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110110 111101 10010111 110101 10010111 01010101 01110100 010011 11010101 010001 10011111 11010101 11110110 010101 11000101 010101 110100111 01000101 10011110 110001 110100001 101101 11011110 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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