This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Old Love that begins with:
When sparrows build, and the leaves break forth,
My old sorrow wakes and cries,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedefgfg hehecfcX iXiXigig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 1110111 11110100111 1010111 101010111 1010111 101010111 1111001 111111111 1111111 01100100101 111011001 111111111 10101111 1111111111 1011101 1111110111 0011101 1111110101 1011111 1111111101 1111111 1111111101 11011110 1111110101 00101100 1111110101 10111100 11111001101 1111111 101111111101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, love, my, i, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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