This is an analysis of the poem Bayard Taylor that begins with:
I.
'And where now, Bayard, will thy footsteps tend?'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabcddXXeeaff Xbccbgccghiihjj XcccXgjjgkggkjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1111001111 1101111101 1011000111 1001100111 1111111111 01110001101 1001010101 1001110101 1111111111 11010011101 11110110101 1101000101 1111111101 0011011111 1 1111000111 1111010101 0101010101 1111000111 0101011101 0101010011 0101100101 10111100111 10010011101 1111111101 0101010111 0111110111 11111101001 1101110101 1 1101011111 11111101001 1111110101 1111110100 1011011001 1111110100 01011100101 11001000011 1101010110 01000101001 01010101001 1101010101 111100100001 0011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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