This is an analysis of the poem O Cool Is The Valley Now that begins with:
O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 111011 1100100101 110111 111101010 10101 111100010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase calling connects the lines.
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