This is an analysis of the poem Anniversary that begins with:
So the light falls, and so it fell
on branched leaved with flocking birds....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc dedec efefc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10111101 11100101 11010101 01010111 1100110101 11011101 0011001001 01011111 10110100 100010101 10111010 10010111 100101010 01001111 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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