This is an analysis of the poem The Veery that begins with:
THE MOONBEAMS over Arno’s vale in silver flood were pouring,
When first I heard the nightingale a long-lost love deploring. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXX ccbX aabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010101010 111101000111010 110011010101110 1101010010110010 0100101010101010 010101011111010 11010101010101 110111110100010 010101111101010 110100010101010 010101010111110 1101001011101010 110111010101010 110111010111110 111101011111110 111101110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of 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.
The poet repeated the same word veery at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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