This is an analysis of the poem Little Paul that begins with:
CHEERFUL voices by the sea-side
Echoed through the summer air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefe dacagece ghghdeie ajkjcedX lcljkeke ajajheie mededece fjljmeheXcjijdele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 1010101 10101110 1110101 10101010 1010001 10101011 1011101 11101111 1010101 10101010 1010101 100101111 10100101 100101110 1001101 11101011 1010111 10111011 1110110 10100110 10001101 11101010 0010101 10101110 1010111 11101110 0111101 10100110 1011101 10101010 1011101 11101110 1011100 10101110 1010101 10111010 1011101 10111010 1111101 11101110 1010111 10101110 1011111 10110010 1011101 10001010 1010101 10110010 1000101 10101110 00100101 11101010 10010101 11100010 1010101 10101010 10010111 00111010 1011101 01011111 1110001 10100110 1011101 101011010 1011101 11010101 1010101 10111010 1010101 00101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; him, while, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, while are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word paul at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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