This is an analysis of the poem Dell And I that begins with:
In a mansion grand, just over the way,
Lives bonny, beautiful Dell;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacaba dedefgfgbchg dbdbcicibaXi dedeahahbahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111001 1101001 111100101 1100101 110011100 1101101 11010111 110111 1111111100111 111110 11100101 111011 1110011101 011101 11001111 0101011 1110100101 10111001 1111111101111 1111 1 01 111001001 0100111 10100101 1100111 1101001001 110111 110100011 011111 1111110101111 11 1 0111 10011111 101111 10100101 1100101 10100111 10010001 10100100101 111101 111101111101111 1111111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word dell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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