This is an analysis of the poem At The Lane's End that begins with:

No more to strip the roses from
The rose-boughs of her porch's place!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dcXc X ddeeffXXgghhccXiXaggccbbccddccjjbbccckkllccccccccmmbchheebbcXbckkccjjXbnneeddd X bcbcb do dod cacac iXidi hkhkh gXgXg ggggg pXpdp babac ldldl chchb ididi kakak eheXe pdpdp cdcdc cXcdc mXmomXcicic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,78,1,5,2,3,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010100 0110011 11111111 010101 11110111 01010101 11011101 111101 11110111 11110101 11011110 011100 1 011110111 100100101 100110111 101011001 1011110101 0011010111 1011110100 1100101101 1011100111 1010101101 1011110111 011110111 0100100111 010110111 111100100 011011101 1101100101 1010101101 1011001011 010100101 011110110 1100110101 1010100101 1011100111 100110101 111101101 010100111 110101101 111101111 1001001101011 0100100101 1010110111 1010100101 1010101101 0010010100 010110111 1111111101 010110101 1010101111 010110101 110101101 10101101 100100101 110101110 1010100101 1110110101 011010101 1011011010 10101001010 10110001 101011101 1100110101 0011110101 10111111001 011110111 10100111011 1011100101 1010110101 0010100111 111110101 011100101 0100110111 0010100111 011110111 101010101 1011100101 101010011111 0010100111 010110111 011111100 110110111 01001001001 1111101101 0011100111 0010111111 1010100101 0010111101 1011011101 1 0011101 1000111 1000111 1011100 0011101 1011101 10001010 1011101 10111010 1011101 10111101 1110111 1000111 1010101 0110111 1011101 1011100 1011011 1010011 0011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 0010111 1011101 10101011 1010101 10101010 1010001 1011101 0010111 1001111 1010101 100101001 1011101 0011100 1010101 1010111 1010111 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010111 1110101 1010101 0010101 1010101 10100101 1010101 1110101 1010001 1010101 1010111 11101010 1010111 10100010 1011111 10101010 10011101 1000101 1011001 1000111 1000101 1110111 10101010 1010101 101011000 0010101 1110011 01101010 1110101 00101110 1010111 11111110 1110111 10001110 1110100 10001010 1011100 1011100 1000101 0110101 0010101 1010101 00101010 11101011 1010100100 1000111 10111110 0011101 100111110 1010111 10101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, that, and, their, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, are, and, in are repeated.

    The author used the same words summer, could at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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