This is an analysis of the poem The Double-Headed Snake Of Newbury that begins with:
Far away in the twilight time
Of every people, in every clime,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXccddeeff gghXcciieeeeggccjjcceekkbb eeffiicchhllll bbhhheXccllccaahhh cchhheeccmmffff mmmnneeffmX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,26,14,18,15,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10100111 01001001001 1011011010 101011110 111010001 110011001 11101101 110101101 1001101101 1010100111 0010110111 010000101 11100111 010110101 10100100101 10101100 10100101 0011101111 110010101 111110111 110110111 101010111 10011101 0010100111 0011101101 0010100101 1010101001 1010110111 1110010101 10100111101 10101111001 010011101 110010111 010101111 110101101 101011111 110100101 1011111101 101100101 1011100101 110010101 111010101 101010101 100110111 110100101 0010111101 11100110110 1010111001 110010111 100111001 101100111 101101011 010111011 100101101 11101011 101101101 010101101 110101101 010101111 010010101 010101101 110101001 010100101 110101101 101100101 1101101101 010100101 110111101 1010110101 10110101 1110111 101110101 011000101 10100101001 010100101 101011001 10101101 0010110111 1010010101 100100101 0011011111 0100100101 0101101001 1011110111 0111100101 101101101 001110111 0111111001 110101011 100101101 101110111 110100101 010100101 0111110101 10101100 010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 96
- 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; and, of, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, or, the are repeated.
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