This is an analysis of the poem Chalkey Hall that begins with:
How bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze
To him who flies... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXcddc cdeed cdffd gagga afddf adhXd idaad jkffk alddl gdiid cjbbj eecXe bgggg hfggf XdlldXbdggd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010001 0111 0101111101 11011101001 011101 1101010111 0101 0101000111 0011011100 110111 1101011111 0101 1111010101 1110001101 111101 1111111111 11010 1100011111 1111110101 1101010 1111110111 0101 0001010011 01110110001 010101 1101010100 0101 1001110101 1101110111 110101 10010010101 1011 1101010101 0100100100 111001 1101010001 1101 1001100101 1101011001 110101 0100110101 10110 01001111001 0011000101 1101110 11110001001 01001 110110101010 11010001010 111001 1011010001 0101 1101010101 0101010101 010111 10110011101 0111 1011010101 10011000101 111111 1101011101 10101 10011110011 01001111010 011101 1101011101 0101 0111010111 0111110101 010101 1101111101 0101 1111010101 1101010101 1101001 0011010100 0101 1101100101 1111110111 110101 1101011001 01010 1110000101 10111111111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, its, or, to are repeated.
The author used the same words here, how, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Chalkey Hall;
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