This is an analysis of the poem Three Years Ago that begins with:
The K'e still ripples to its banks,
The moorfowl cry....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXcX Xbbb Xcdc Xcdc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 0101 11110001 1111 10011001 1011 11111101 0111 01010001 0111 11010111 1101 11111011 1111 11110101 1101 11111101 1111 11011001 1111 01000011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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