This is an analysis of the poem In The Valley that begins with:
Said the yellow-haired Spirit of Spring
To the white-footed Spirit of Snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdceXeXdbdb XXfXghgh hchcfbfb hihijcjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010110001 001101001 101001011 11101011 110010100 101101011 101001011 001001101 101011011 101001110 001001001 101001001 11011001 101101011 101101101 01001011 1010010001 11001010 001011101 001001001 1010010001 11011001 11101011 001001101 1010010001 11010001 101011011 101011011 1010010001 11011001 11001111 11101001 1010010001 11001101 11011001 00100010001 1010010001 11001011 11111101 001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, is are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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