This is an analysis of the poem Within The Gate that begins with:
L. M. C.
We sat together, last May-day, and talked... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc ddee ccdd ffgg hhdd ffbb ffdd ddii bbbb eecc XXbb aXjj ccff bbii aaii kkaa kchhXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1101011111 001111 0111000111 011100 1111010101 110101 1101000101 100101 1111001101 110111 0011010101 100101 1011111101 110111 10100010111 010001 1111011101 0010001 1011111101 110001 1111111101 0010001 1101111101 111101 01001010101 1100101 10001010101 011001 1001011101 100101 1101010101 011000 1111000101 0111001 1101011011 101001 10110101001 110100 01010000101 111101 11010101001 101111 0111011111 010111 0111000101 010100 1110111111 110101 11111100100 110101 1101101101 111001 1111010101 010101 0111000101 11001 1101011101 110101 10111111001 100111 1001110001 010011 1001010010 010001 1111011101 110110 0110110101 110101 1111110101 010111 1111110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; we, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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