This is an analysis of the poem Dolly Dare that begins with:
AT Backworth sung till echo rung,
A bard whose feelings were,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaC dcXc dcec ccfc gcdc Xcec ecfc Xcfc Xcec gchc hcdXXabaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 011100 01011111 010101 11011101 110101 11011101 111101 01111101 101101 11111101 1100101 01010101 010101 11111101 110101 11000101 101101 01011111 011101 010101001 111101 01011001 010101 01111111 001101 11011101 111101 01110111 111101 11010101 010101 010111001 100101 11011101 010101 01011001 100111 11011111 011101 11011101 110101 11010101 10111010 01011111 110100 110010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dare at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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