This is an analysis of the poem Above Lavender Bay that begins with:
’Tis glorious morning everywhere
Save where the alleys lie—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedfgeghgeg XXfcgcXc ijbjebeb hahaigdgXhjejgheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010101 110101 11010111 010001 01000100 110111 11010101 011111 01110100 010011 11010101 110101 00110101 110111 11011101 011101 01011100 0101000 11111100 011111 11111111 111011 01110101 111101 11000101 110101 01100111 011111 11010101 010101 11101101 110001 11010111 010111 01100111 0101001 01010001 110001 011010101 011101 01111101 111101 11010101 011101 11010101 111101 01010101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, the are repeated.
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