This is an analysis of the poem The Crow that begins with:
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My friend and neighbor through the year,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc dd ee ff gg bb hh ii aa dd dd jj X kk cc kk kk dd X hh XX ll ii mm dd ee nn aa jX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 10101010 0110111 0111101 1110111 1110101 1010101 1110101 0110001 11010101 11110101 11111101 11110111 1010111 11011101 10110101 11010101 11111111 11011101 11011101 1010111 11111111 1010101 11010101 1 10101010 11111110 11101010 111010010 11111010 100111010 11101110 10101010 10111010 11111010 1 10101110 10101010 10101100 00101110 1000101010 10111010 1010101 1110001 11010101 1010001 10111110 11111010 01111110 10101110 11101010 10111110 11101011 11101011 1101101011 111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, i, thy, may are repeated.
The author used the same words thy, may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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