This is an analysis of the poem What I Have Seen #1 that begins with:
I saw a mother give wine to her boy-
The rain-drops fall and fall:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede aeae Xfgf haha gigi
- 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: 1101011001 011111 0100100111 0101001 110100111 0111001 01001111011 0101001 1101101101 0111011 1101011001 111001011 110111001 011111 1101001001 1111001 1101011110 011111 110101101 1001101 1101101001 011111 1011111101 1111011 1101111001 0111011 1101001011 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, him, saw are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, saw are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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