This is an analysis of the poem On The Terrace Of The Aigalades. (From The French Of Méry) that begins with:

From this high portal, where upsprings
The rose to touch our hands in play, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabC dede fdfd ghgh baba ijij bXXd bgbg kfkf lalC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 00110110 01011101 11010111 01011011 10111101 11111001 111110101 01111101 01111111 01010111 11011101 10111111 01111111 00110001 11111101 01001111 10010101 10010111 010101010 11010111 11110101 10110101 101011111 01110101 01110101 1101011010 111001000 01110101 10110111 11010101 01100101 01011111 01111101 11110101 01010101 01000111 01010101 01010001 11100101 01011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, and, with, 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.

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