This is an analysis of the poem The Bells Of Malines that begins with:
AUGUST 17, 1914
The gabled roofs of old Malines... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabbcXddcc XaeeffXXgg Xahhiihhgg XXjjiiXXhh kkiXeeaaii XahhXkiidX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 010101100 11011111 1100001110 111111010 10110101 010111010 01011101 01011101 11010101 011101001 111101100 01110111 01010101 110111101 0101011 11010101 01010011 10010101 011101101 10010101 101101100 01000101 11010111 01010001 11011001 110101111 11110111 11100100 11010111 010011101 110100100 10110110 110001001 01010011 11110101 11111101 01110100 11010100000 1011001101 11000101 111100101 111100101 11111001 110010001000 10111111 01010111 11011101 010100101 1110000101 1000011111 111100100 001101111 01010111 11110111 10010100 01111111 10110111 11010101 11010101 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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, that, of, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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