This is an analysis of the poem The Walking Bell that begins with:
A CHILD refused to go betimes
To church like other people;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba aXaX cXcc dada efef gbgb ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101100 0111010 11011101 1110010 010110101 0111010 01110111 11101100 011110101 01010101 10011101 1011110 01111101 1101010 11010101 0101010 01011101 01010010 11111001 0111110 11010111 1101010 010101001 1101110 11111111 0101011 01011101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bell, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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