This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Arda: (From “annatanam”.) that begins with:
LOW as a lute, my love, beneath the call
Of storm, I hear a melancholy wind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbXbXdXdaXXXd efefeFF gagaeFF hhXhhhhXdcdcdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 0111010101 0100010101 1001010001 1101010101 0101100001 1110111111 0101000101 0101011111 1101010111 0101010101 1101000101 1001001111 1101010101 0101111101 11011101001 01011001001 101001001 101001101001 01001101 11011001011 001001001 00111001 01011001011 01011001 01111101001 01001001 1101101011 001001001 00111001 01011011111 11011001 101111001111 11001101 101101101011 11001000 01001000 11011011011 11001011 11001001001 001001001 11011001011 11011001 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grave, be, despair are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word grave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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