This is an analysis of the poem Meet Me In The Green Glen that begins with:

Love, meet me in the green glen,
Beside the tall elm-tree, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbA cacaA AdadA XdXdA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 010111 101011110 1101 110011 111011 10011 11101 11111101 110011 110011 110101 111111 1011101 110011 111010 1011101 10111010 110101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; meet, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word meet is repeated.

    The author used the same word meet 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 glen is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word glen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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