This is an analysis of the poem You And Yellow Air that begins with:
YOU, AND YELLOW AIR by John Shaw Neilson
I dream of an old kissing-time ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCDC XedX XdXd XcDc dada dfXf Xgdg dedeXBCDC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111110 11011101 1010101 00110101 011101 01110100 101011 10011100 001101 0101011 01011 10111101 01011 1001110 011111 00110101 101101 01011110 001101 01011101 110101 1010011 111101 1001010 110111 1011010 110011 11001011 110101 0101010 0110101 1010011 10011 11011101 1010101 00110101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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