This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of The Opal that begins with:
The Sunbeam loved the Moonbeam,
And followed her low and high, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dcec adfd Xafa cgcg efcf Xada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111011 1100111 11111101 111111 0111010 1110101 10110101010 1011111 11101011 0110101 111110101 011101 1101110 00100111 01110111 110101 11001110 111111 1101101001 11001001 101110110 1100111 110111101 1010111 11010010 111101 1011011001 00111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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