This is an analysis of the poem Since Then that begins with:
I found myself among the trees
What time the reapers ceased to reap;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcdc efXfe ggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 100110101 10111101 11010101 11011101 01011101 11000101 01011101 11111111 11011111 11000101 11010101 11110101 01011101 11011111 11010111 11111101 01111111 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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