This is an analysis of the poem Lovers At The Lake Side that begins with:

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'And you brought him home.' 'I did, ay Ronald, it rested with me.'... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXab X acXX X deXe X XXfd a gbgb a eaea X hchc X ecec X caca d XfiX a cXXX X iaiX X dXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111101011001001 1011111011111011 101111101010101 111110111011001 1 110111010011111 101011011110111 110110101011111 110110101010110 1 110101101011010 111100101010101 110110111111111 110101110111001 1 011100100111101 1101111011101110 111110101001101 010111101111101 1 110101111111001 1101110111101101 110101101010111 1110101011111011 1 110100111111101 1101110110100100 110111110101101 101101101011001 1 111011110111101 0100101000110101 101111110101111 111100110101111 1 11110111011111 110011010111101 101000101001101 111110101101101 1 101101101111101 1011110010100101 111111011011101 111110110111011 1 11010110110111110 101101100101001 111110111011011 1110010010110100 1 1111101101101101 111111100111101 111110110111111 10111111010111111 1 111011101011001 111101111111111 001101101111011 101101101001111 1 111111011011011 110011010100101 1111011110110100 101111111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; ', 'i, it, look, for, i, you, her, me are repeated.

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

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