This is an analysis of the poem The Pipes At Lucknow that begins with:

Pipes of the misty moorlands,
Voice of the glens and hills;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcdcd cEFeXgHG ciiiagbX geXedgiX jafagkjk hejeXfXX biXijahX blflgkXk XdiXaddd cEFeXgHG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011 100111 0100010 010001 10101110 1010101 1101011010 111101 1001110 110101 00101010 010111 1101010 1010111 10100110 011101 111010010 1011101 11101010 1110101 11101110 1010101 1101011 1011111 11101110 1110101 10101100 1010011 11101010 0011001 1011010110 011111 10101010 1010101 0111011 1010101 10101111 010111 10101010 010111 10101010 1010001 10101010 0011001 1101010 110101 1111100 010101 11101110 1110111 1110101 1110101 10101110 1010111 10101011 010001 10101110 1111111 10110011 1010101 1101111 010101 1100110000 010101 10101010 1011101 10101010 010111 100101011 1111111 10101010 101101 1001110 110101 00101010 010101 1101010 1010111 10100110 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, nor, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, hushed, she are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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