This is an analysis of the poem Earlier Poems : Burial Of The Minnisink that begins with:
On sunny slope and beechen swell,
The shadowed light of evening fell;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbeX ffffgg ccffcc bbffcc bbhhii eXffff ffXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01010101 11010111 01110111 01010101 11100101 11000101 10111101 01011001 00110101 11000101 1101001100 110100111 10110101 01110101 01011101 11010101 01011001 111101010 110011010 11011111 11010101 11010101 11101101 01100111 100100101 01010101 10110101 010100101 10110111 01011101 10011001 01010101 01011101 01011101 10011011 10011101 1001001100 01011101 11010101 11111111 11010001 11001111 01010101 111101001 00111101 01110111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, of are repeated.
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