This is an analysis of the poem In The Rangitaki Valley that begins with:

valley of waving broom,
O lovely, lovely light,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcCdX ceXcXf aBfeXXXdXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 110101 1100111 11001011 0101111 00100101 0101001 01101001 01010010 1100101 10010010 1001001 1100101 110101 11001001 00100101 00101101 10101100 11100101 101001001 100101 11001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

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