This is an analysis of the poem A Fallen Beech that begins with:
Nevermore at doorways that are barken
Shall the madcap wind knock and the moonlight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaX cXcdc deded bdbdb fXfgf fhfhf fffff bebeb hXhgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111110 1011111011 1010111110 10110010011 1001111110 10110001010 1010101100 1110101010 1011101010 11100010010 1110101010 0011101110 10101001110 1111110010 0011001110 1010101010 00011101010 0111101110 1101001110 1110101010 1011101010 1010111010 1010111110 00101110010 1011101110 1010011010 1010011111 1110101010 10101010011 1110111110 1010001010 1010111010 1011101110 1010101110 10011101110 1010101110 1010001110 1010111010 1010101010 111011000010 1011111011 0010001010 1101111011 0111111110 1011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thy, of, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word nevermore at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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