This is an analysis of the poem A Vine-Arbour In The Far West that begins with:

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Laura, my Laura! 'Yes, mother!' 'I want you, Laura; come down.'... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXb X cbcb X XdcX X XXXX a efef a gXgX X dXfXX X acaX X XcXc g XXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,1,4,1,4,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101101101111011 100101101111101 110011011111001 101111001011101 1 1010101101111011 110010111001011 110010100111101 111101100101100 1 1011011010001000111 111111111001011 101010011011111 101111011111110 1 110101101101011 110101011100111 1110101101001110 101101011011001 1 1010110111110010 101011001010111 10101111010101110 101101101111101 1 101110101011111 010011010111110 111101110110111 101101101101101 1 1111111111011 11 111001001111101 111111111111101 111010010011111 1 111010011111101 1011100111001001 011110111111011 111101101111101 1 111101110111111 101011011011001 1011100101101110 1101010101101011 1 010101010101111 110011110111110 11011110101101 0 111011111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, laura, ', it, think, i, my, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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