This is an analysis of the poem In The Dim Counties that begins with:
In the dim counties
we take the long calm... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb AcXc Xcdc Abab XcXc AcXc deAe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110 11011 101100 1011 010110 01011 110101 1001 100111 1001 10111 11001 00110 01111 001100 1101 100100 1101 110101 1111 010110 01001 111111 1011 110101 1101 00110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, love are repeated.
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