This is an analysis of the poem Mirls that begins with:
The stars are steady abune;
I' the water they flichter and flee;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aXaX bb XXcc XX XdXd XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 101011011 1101101 1110101 111111 111010 11111001 111101 10101110101 11010111101 101101110 00011101 110111111 111111011 11111 11110 11111001010 1110111011 111010011010 10110110101 11111010 1111111111 1110100101 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, ye, my, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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