This is an analysis of the poem Poynings that begins with:
Do you remember that June day among
The hills, the high, far-reaching Sussex hills?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbcdbdefdbb gghehXgijkgljagigdgd gmcbfXgX ebkgefelgXga bgeeghkaXn jbakmafjnmjdXngnB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,8,12,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 0101110101 0101010101 1111110100 0111000101 0101111101 1111110011 1101110111 0111000101 01010110111 1101010001 0111010001 0101111101 0110011100 1110011101 1011110101 01010010101 0101011111 0101010111 11001010101 1101011001 01010010001 11010101010 10111011101 111101011001 11011101001 0101010111 0111010111 1100010111 0101010011 1101011111 11110111001 10100101101 1101110001 1111011110 1101010100 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 01011101 1101010011001 1111110100 0101110101 010010101 0101111101 1001010111 1111010101 0101010001 0101010101 1100011101 11110100001 11011100111 1101110101 1111010101 1101111001 1101001101 1101000101 1111011100 1111010101 1101010100 0100011111 11111111 1111000011 1101011101 1101010101 1111111101 1100111101 1101101101 1101010101 11010010101 1001010111 1111010101 0100010101 0100011111 0100010101 01010011101 01110010101 0100010110 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 hills is repeated).
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