This is an analysis of the poem The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo that begins with:

(Maidens’ song from St. Winefred’s Well)
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme:
  • Stanza lengths (in strings):
  • Closest metre:
  • Сlosest rhyme:
  • Сlosest stanza type:
  • Guessed form:
  • Metre:
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, no, beauty, there, of, none, s, messengers, you, what, be, and, to, despair, us, with, done, locks, them, have, not, hair, we, kept, yonder, fonder, care, where are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines despair, sun, yonder are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases despair, undone, yonder connect the lines.

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