This is an analysis of the poem A Rondel Of Gloucestershire that begins with:
Big glory mellowing on the mellowing hills,
And in the Uttle valleys, thatch and dreams, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAaaaaaa XXaaaaAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100101001 100110111 1101011101 01110011111 1101110111 0011010101 010100101001 100110111 1111011101 1101010110 110101101 1111010101 1111110111 1110111111 110100101001 100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dreams at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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