This is an analysis of the poem Going East that begins with:
She came from the East a fair, young bride,
With a light and a bounding heart, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daXa efbf Xcgc ghah cada fbcb bbcb abXb aihi eXbaXbbib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010111 00110101 010010101 00100101 110010101 10101011 01110101 11110111 110101101 11010101 111111011 01011001 110010101 10100101 110011111 11110101 111101100 10101111 11111101 11011001 010100101 11001001 11110001 10100111 101100101 10110101 101011101 00101001 010110101 10101101 010010111 11100101 010010101 1101001 101010101 10111101 010110101 11100101 110101101 11000101 11110101 00101110 111100101 10101111 01011111 01010101 01011101 00111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, nor, of, her, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word east at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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