This is an analysis of the poem The Erl-King that begins with:
1.
WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabb XcXX ddcX aXXX aaeX dXXX dXXX cccc X dX ccbb XaXX ffcX aXfX dXeX XXaX dXbX Xcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111101111 01000001011 11001101001 11011011011 101100111110100 101001101111 111011011010 1011011010010 101111011101 11001101101 111101011001 110111010010 101011011111 011011110110 111011110100 10111110100100 101111011011 11011101001 11011111001 111111111010 101011011111 1011010111110 101011011010 101111010110 101101111011 101010111100 101011011011 110011111110 01011001011 11001011001 11001101101 01001111001 1 1100101 1010 11111111 000101001 110101001 111101111 101110110110 101110101 010001110 1010101010 101111111 11011101 10111011001 110111010010 101011011111 01001010110 11111111 010101110 1011110101 1101111100 00111011001 111111111010 101011011111 010100110100 101111101 1101011100 1011110001111 101110111100 101011011011 01011101010 010100101 00111001001 11010111 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, thee, and, with, you, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, my, are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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