This is an analysis of the poem Punch Song (To Be Sung In The Northern Countries) that begins with:
On the mountain's breezy summit,
Where the southern sunbeams shine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XXda eaXa faXa gaha didg djXj akbk eifg blcl fkbkXhefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10101010 1110110 10100010 1010001 100101010 10100101 001010010 1011101 11001010 101001001 10101010 1110111 11101110 1110101 11101010 1110101 10101110 1110100 11101010 1011100 101111100 1011101 11101010 10001101 11001010 1010101 10101010 1100101 10110010 10101001 00101110 0010100 10100110 1000101 00101010 1010111 10101010 1010101 10101110 1010101 10111110 00101001 00101110 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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