This is an analysis of the poem Aechdeacon Barbour that begins with:
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shed
A dubious light on every upturned head;... full text
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 520,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
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- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 22959
- Average number of words per stanza: 4037
- Amount of lines: 520
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, by, of, its, with, in, from, sea, to, your, if, her, as, live, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, the, its, and, from, to, if, why, her, some, while, live are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase live connects the lines.
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- summary of Aechdeacon Barbour;
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