This is an analysis of the poem Charles Harpur that begins with:
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams,
And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbc adad ebeb efef gcgX gcgX fhfh fafa XhXh cici adad aaaaXeheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 111111010 11011101 110101100 11001111 111111010 11010111 110101010 11110101 110101011 11111101 010111011 11000101 110111010 11010111 110101010 11110101 110101010 11011101 1101110100 01000101 110101010 01010111 1101010000 1101001001 110111110 01111111 11011001100 11110101 010111010 11010111 110111010 11011101 110001110 110001001 010101010 11010101 010100010 01000100 100101110 11110111 110101110 01010001 110101110 010100110 010101111 110101010 111101011 01011111 010101010 110101001 110111110 11110101 010111110 11010101 011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, with, him, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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