This is an analysis of the poem The Wandering Jew that begins with:
The stars are falling, and the sky
Is like a field of faded flowers;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd bebebbdd fgfghhdd dXdiiidd iaiXjjdd dXdakkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 010101010 01110111 011101010 111100111 11010100 11111101 11011101 11010101 11001101 010010101 01011101 11000101 11110101 01111101 11011101 11010101 01000101 11010101 11101101 11110101 11110101 01010111 11110101 01111111 01011101 10010111 11110101 11111101 11010101 11111101 11110101 01111101 11110101 1100100101 11110100 11110101 010010101 110111001 11111101 11110111 111110101 11010101 11011001 11001101 11011101 11111101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, have, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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