This is an analysis of the poem The Evening Gossip that begins with:
We sat by the fisher's cottage,
We looked on sea and sky, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb XcXc defe ffff Xgfg Xhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 111111 1101010 1101101 01001110 101101 1101010 011101 1101110 0010101 11111110 111101 1101110 110111 1111010 111111 00101010 110101 10111010 1110101 0011011100 110111 11111010 1101111 01010100 1101010 01110101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same words we, of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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