This is an analysis of the poem Echo And The Ferry that begins with:
Ay, Oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven;
He looked at me pouting and rosy. I blushed where I stood.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbaccaa cbXaa cbbddd eeaafeXedf deeddgggdd hdhdhhghhdiXjjjbXbjX iccikkk bbaaeebbcbcbhbbaaXadbbllbbjhXjXjX bbcXacjXcdXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,6,10,10,20,7,33,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110111010 11111011011111 1111010010111010 011101111101111 111011111001001 0110110010011010 11001101111101 01111011111101 111010110001010 111110111010010 11001101001111 110110011010110 1101100101101100 110110110011110 010010110110010 11111001001111 111011011011011 111111111011111 111110110110010 111111110110110 010010110 11111101011101 11101011001001 101010010111010 110110011110010 11011010101000 11011011001111 1111111011110100 11111111001001 111011011010010 111010011011011 101010110010110 11001101011001 11001001111001 010111110111010 011110010110110 11011111101001 111101001101011 111010001101101 110011010011010 110110111010010 11001011001001 011111010110110 111001111001011 010111011010010 11111011001101 111101101011111 11011011011001 101011101011111 11111110101011 1111111010111010 111110010011010 1110111111111110 1111011110010010 1111111010011110 1111010111110110 11011111111001 110110110010010 101101111111101 1110011110110010 110110010 110110010011010 01011101011011 101101101111001 1100100111110110 11111101011101 101111111111111 101011101001001 11001111011001 001111101111101 101111011011001 11011011011011 111001101101111 01101011101101 101011111101101 110101011001001 1110011111001101 11011011011101 101011101011011 001001001011011 0011110010111011 101101101011001 11011011011001 11111111111101 11101101101111110 1110111110010110 110110110111010 1110111010110110 11111101001011 11011011011111 101101101011011 101110101101011 111001011101001 11001111011001 1101110110010010 11011011111111 01111101101101 1011111010011110 110110110010110 110010 110110010 11011111001001 11011111011011 111101001011011 011011101001110 001111001111011 001101111001101 110110111111110 1110110110110010 11011011001101 110110110110010 11101101101010 011111110010110 110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, he, it, eleven, with, long, laugh, not, could, we, ferry, she, her, echo, in, found, old, ', of, then, katie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, will are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eleven, after, river are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word eleven at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Echo And The Ferry;
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