This is an analysis of the poem Echoes From The Sabine Farm that begins with:

TO THE FOUNTAIN OF BANDUSIA
O FOUNTAIN of Bandusia!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xabacded Xfcfaghg XbXbXaXa Xb bbahha hhchhc XX hhee iibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,2,6,6,2,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 00100100 1100100 110101 010111111 010111 01010101 111101 10111100 1111001 1100100 011101 110100001 101101 11010101 010101 10010101 111101 1100100 010110 111101101 011101 1100100 010011 01011011 101101 010 1 1101110111 1111 1101101111 101010111 10101 010101111111 0111011101 1001 1101001110101 1101010111 1101 110101010111 010 1 111001111110011 11010101111110011 110001010111110 1011110011110010 01011101000101 010101010111111 1111111111111011 0101011111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; or, to, yet, some are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bandusia, yet, ye are repeated).

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