This is an analysis of the poem Guild's Signal that begins with:
Two low whistles, quaint and clear:
That was the signal the engineer--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccddb ddbXXeeb ffbcccXb ffXbbeeb aabaXeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 110100101 110101111 10011100 11010111 1001 1001 110110111 101010111 10010101 101101101 11111100 11110101 1111 1101 101100101 1110101 10100101 10110101 11010101 110110100 1001 1000 1011001011 101100101 11001001001 110101100 110110111 110100101 1101 1111 101100101 111101111 0100101101 1010100111 1110111101 110100111 1101 0011 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; that, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word said at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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