This is an analysis of the poem In The North that begins with:

Come, let us go and be glad again together
Where of old our eyes were opened and we knew that we were ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa baXb a cac Xdaedae fgf g cbcb Xaeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,1,3,7,3,1,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101010 10111010111110 1 11001010111010 1111101010101 11 11111011010 110100011101 1011101110101010 10101110010000001 111110101010111 0 0111010101110 1 10001101111100 10111110101010 1 11010110101010 111010100010101 1111011010011 101010111010111 10111101110 00101010101101 110111011100010 011111110101 111010101101010 101011101111101 1011101010101010 0010101011100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, they, their, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.

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  • summary of In The North;
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