This is an analysis of the poem Down In A Valley As Alexis Trips that begins with:
Down in a valley as Alexis trips,
Daphne sat sweetly sleeping.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010101 1011010 1101010101 1101100 0111010 1011110 111111101010 1111010 1111010 01110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, pity are repeated).
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