This is an analysis of the poem Sweetest Whistle Ever Blew that begins with:
A DAY when April willows fringed the pool
Of fifty years ago with freshening gold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc cccbd ed bdb dfgfg ghfh f ifibi bidjb j keke iaiagXdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,2,3,5,4,1,5,5,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110111001 01000101001 1111000101 0111000101 01011101001 1101110101 0101010111 0101000101 11111101 01010101 11110111 110111 0101010101 10011010111 1100110111 10010111001 1111011101 1111110111 11010011001 1101110111 11011101 11011101 01110101 110101 11100110101 1101011101 00101010001 0111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1001110101 1101110101 01011101 01010110 11001111 010101 1101010101 1001111101 1101001111 1101010101 0101010101 01010010111 010010101001 11111110001 11111111 01010101 10010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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