This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of A Pass Christian that begins with:
A Live-oak grows by the shallow sea.
Rest under its boughs, I pray, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc deXe faga haha fgfg fhfh ggag cdcb cici fafa Xjej gfgf kbkb fifi aaga bhbh afaf caca blbl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110101 1100111 110010111 10101101 11011101 1110111 001011101 10100101 101111100 110000 11010111 010111 11011101 110110 01011101 111101 11111101 011101 01010101 0100101 11110111 011101 01010101 011001 11010101 110101 11111101 111101 1100111001 110111 11011101 1000101 11111111 1110010 11110001 0101010 110110111 100101 11010001 110101 11110111 110101 111111001 111101 01011111 100101 11111110 111001 10010111 100101 11010101 010101 01011111 110111 01110101 010111 11100111 011101 01011101 111111 11011111 1100101 11111001 111101 11111111 111101 11111101 110101 10100111 111111 11111101 101101 01111111 110111 10110101 110101 11111101 101101 11010111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her, and, be, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, though, it are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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