This is an analysis of the poem A Glimpse Of Pan that begins with:
I caught but a glimpse of him. Summer was here.
And I strayed from the town and its dust and heat.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabab XbccbXb adaadada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011011 11100110111 1100110111 10110110101 11001001111 0100101101 0010111 11110100101 1001100111 00100101101 01001101001 1010100101 1100100100 1100111 111010111 1111001001 101101001011 001111101 100110111 101011011 1101101111 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; and, of, vines are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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