This is an analysis of the poem North And South that begins with:

Of the North I wove a dream,
All bespangled with the gleam... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaccc dXXdccc eeXebbb Xbcbfff gXXgfff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0011101 1100001 00101010 1010001 110101 1110111 1101110101 1110101 1110101 00101110 1010101 1011001 1011001 10111011001 0011111 1010111 10100100 0001001 1110101 0110100 11010011101 1001101 1100101 10111010 1011101 1110111 1110101 10101110001 1111111 0010111 1110010 0010111 11100111 10010101 00100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, and are repeated.

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

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