This is an analysis of the poem The Farmer's Daughter that begins with:
And the Church bells rang merrily, for they
Rang o'er the farmer's daughter's wedding-day....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddXefXgghhiijjbbffeeeekkhhXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110011 11001010101 011100100101 11001110101 1001011101 11011101101 1101001101 1101110101 11001010101 1101010111 10010101110 0101001111 1101010101 1101011110 11001010010 1101110101 1100110001 1101110101 1010101110010 11011101010 10010100111 1011111101 0101100101 1001010101 1111100101 1001010101 0101000101 10101100111 10010101010 01011111010 1111010101 0100011101 1101111101 0111110111 00111111100 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1615
- Average number of words per stanza: 286
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rang, o'er, over, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rang, and are repeated.
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