This is an analysis of the poem The Settled Bards that begins with:
These be the grim suburban days,
And, tho' in verse we frolic,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaaX bcXbbc dedXde fgfffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 1101110 11001111 10110101 11010111 1101010 11011101 1111010 110111110 11110101 11010111 1101010 11011101 1111110 01010101 100101110 11000101 1100010 11011101 1101010 11111101 00011111 01110111 0001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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