This is an analysis of the poem Up And Down Old Brandywine that begins with:
Up and down old Brandywine,
In the days 'at's past and gone--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaXbbaA XXXcddee fXfcddaA gagahXgg ididbbaA hbhbddii jkjkiiaX jhjXaahX aXagbbaA fjXjXXXi XblbggaA XXXkggii AcXcllaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 0011111 0011111 101011 1111001 1110101 10011011 1111101 1110101 1010111 10101111 1011100 1011001 11101011 1011101 1110111 1010111 1010101 1110111 1011111 1111111 10011111 1110111 1111101 0110101 1011111 1010001 1010001 1010101 1011101 1001101 1110101 1011101 1010101 1100111 10010101 1010101 1011111 0111001 1111101 1111111 1011111 1100111 1011101 1010111 1111111 1111111 1011100 1110101 1111011 1111111 1011101 1010001 1110101 1111101 1111100 1010101 1110101 1110111 1011111 1110111 1011101 1001111 11101110 0110110 111010 1110011 1110101 1111001 0111101 1110101 1111101 1011101 0111101 1011111 1010101 1101111 10101010 1111100 1011100 10101100 1010111 1110111 1010101 1011101 1110111 1000101 1111101 1111111 1111101 0110111 1010110 1110111 10100101 1100111 1110111 1111101 11010001 1100100 1111111 1111111 11111111 1110111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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