An Idyll by Madison Julius Cawein: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem An Idyll that begins with:

He was a boy, sun-burned and brown,
And she a girl from a neighboring town:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeccaaffgghXddiihhhXffaXdXaahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1101001001 10011101 1011110111 101100101 100110101 101011101 1100110111 0011110101 01111101 1011110101 111111011 110101101 1011011001 111100111 1110101001 111100111 011101101 111101110 0110110101 1111111111 0101011001 11111101 100100111 011111101 010011111 111101111 1101101111 10011111 1100111110 111110101 1011100101 111100111 1011110101 111111111 100100110 111100111 110111111 0111100111 110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1664
  • Average number of words per stanza: 332
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, she, that are repeated.

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

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