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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  • summary of Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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