This is an analysis of the poem A Runnable Stag that begins with:
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom,
And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbCdDC dedeecbXc fgfggCDDc dfdffeaaC bebeecDDc hbhbbijjC ihihhCKkc adaddCbbC lflffcKkCXblbllcbbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110111 1100100101 110001001001 1110011111 1100111 010100101 01010101 11111111 010101 101011111 1101101001 11100101101 0010101101 00101101 1101100101 01011101 111111110 110101 11100101101 0100111001 11001011101 011100111 0111011 010100101 010100101 11111111 0101101 01100111001 1100110111 10110110111 010110111 0101111 1010100111 01010101 011100111 010101 1110001111 11011111001 11101001001 1100100101 0100101 110010101 010100101 11111111 010101 110010111 0100110101 011110111 101011101 0101101 01011111 01010101 11111101 010101 10100101011 1010110101 1101011001 010010111 0100111 010100101 110101111 1111101101 010101 1111100101 00100110111 1100100101 11100100101 001001001 010100101 0101001001 100100101 010101 101011101 1110010101 111010101 11100110101 111101001 111010101 110101111 100111101 010101 1101001001 1101011011 1010110101 1111100101 111001001 01010101 1111001001 100100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; stag, yap, and, ahead, of, he, in, his, five are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, before, the, of, and, as, for, three are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind, out, forth, on, brunt, ahead, all, sleep, glen, sea are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word stag at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ahead connects the lines.
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