This is an analysis of the poem A Song that begins with:
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear;
There is ever a something sings alway:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXabcbcX AAAAA AdaddadAXAAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010011111 1010010110 10100110111 10100110111 011100101 1011100101 101110111 0101100100 1010011111 001011111 10100111111 1010011111 10100111 1010011111 0011110111 010110101 1010100111 011110111 101011111 11001101101 1010011111 1010011111 001011111 10100111111 1010011111 10100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; song, and, there, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, and are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dear is repeated).
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