This is an analysis of the poem In The Lane that begins with:

When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdd bebedd fdXddd fdfddd bgcgdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100101 10111101 1010011101 1100101 0110110101 11111101 10101110101 1100101 10101001101 1100101 0110110101 1011110101 1010100111 11001001 1010011100 1100111 0110110101 1010110101 111100101 111111 1011100101 1100101 0110110111 10101110101 10100101101 1100101 1010010101 1101101 011010101 0110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of In The Lane;
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