This is an analysis of the poem Now, O Now In This Brown Land that begins with:

Now, O now, in this brown land
Where Love did so sweet music make ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdXee fXfcgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 11011101 11110101 10011101 11011111 11010001 01011101 01010101 11011100 01010100 01111111 10110001 1111111 01001100 10111101 11111101 11111101 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; we is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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