This is an analysis of the poem Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling, that begins with:
Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling,
Who goes there stepping over the date leaves ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbbXbac adceeadaXe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 1111010011 100010010 011000101 01101010101 111101 011110101 1011101 10001010010 101010110 110011100100 0110101 1000110101 1001101101 10010100101 101001100 11101111 1110101 1100101 0100111101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; ting, ling, her, jhum are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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