This is an analysis of the poem Bret Harte* that begins with:
What wizardry is this? What necromance?
These forest-aisles, these mountains grim and vast? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd aeae fgfg eeee bhbh dada aiai bXiX fifi jeje dhdh hehe klkl mijmi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100001100 11010110111 11001110101 0100101 0101010111 1101000101 1100110101 011101 1011111101 1011110111 0101111111 011111 01110101101 1111011101 0101100101 111101 1101000101 1101010111 1101010111 010101 1101001111 0101010101 0101111111 101101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 011111 1101010001 1101110101 0101110101 010001 1101010101 1001011101 0101011001 110100 1101110111 1001110011 0101110101 110100 1111000111 1001010111 1110000111 001101 1101110101 1101110111 1001011101 111101 1101110111 0111011101 1011010011 1111001 10010111001 0111011101 1111110111 111101 101011010010001001 10101010110100111 0100010100010101 100011101010101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these, or, i, all, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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