This is an analysis of the poem Child-Songs that begins with:
Still linger in our noon of time
And on our Saxon tongue... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cXda Xeee Xfff gcXc bece cfdf gXXc Xfcf caca aege dfdf fXfc Xgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 111101 01000111 0100101 11110100 0100111 010010001 010101 111111110 111101 11010101 111101 010000101 111101 1100101101 010111 11010101 010101 11110101 010101 01010111 111101 11011101 110101 10010111 111001 100010101 011100 011101001 0101001 01000101 010101 11110101 110101 11010100 011101 11011100 110111 11010001 110101 11010101 111111 01001111 010101 01010111 110101 01010100 011101 01011101 110010 110101010 110101 010100011 111101 01010100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; nor, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, that, and, no are repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 him is repeated).
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