This is an analysis of the poem Away! Away! Away! Away! that begins with:

Away! away! away! away!
Ye have not kept your secret well, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xccc dede feXe ghgh aiai hfhf jjjXXhihi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010101 11111101 10011101 110111 11110111 011101 01010001 110111 11010101 010101 11001111 101101 111100101 0001001 110101001 110011 11110111 1011001 11011101 110101 11111001 110111 11010101 11111 11110101 110111 11011101 010101 10110101 0100111 11010111 011100 101101001 110101 110001001 011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; away, my, her are repeated.

    The author used the same words ye, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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