This is an analysis of the poem The Rendezvous that begins with:
A lonely barn, lost in a field of weeds;
A fallen fence, where partly hangs a gate:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101100101 0101110101 011100101001 01001110101 0101100111 1011011011 11001000111 1101110101 0101000101 0101110111 10001110111 0101111111 01000101001 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 words a, the are repeated.
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