This is an analysis of the poem The Vale Of Tempe - The Hylas that begins with:

I Heard the hylas in the bottomlands
Piping a reed-note in the praise of Spring:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbbcc dedebfbfbfddf X ggbhbhXX bgigihighghddffcccc X jbbbddjjjbbbbb iXdibbkk X aallmmnnbbooiXi g bboXpipaiiaaqaqjjqiiirrbhhXeemmjjrroossddobobbbXXhiXjjjjbbbXdhbdhigilbbonXnn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,1,8,19,1,14,8,1,15,1,76,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000100 10011001001 0111010101 1100101 01001100101 1010010111 1000101 01001101101 11101 0111 101101 11001 101101 0101 11011 1101001 010101 101101 1111 1101 0110111101 1 1101000111 1111 10010010101 01010 110010 011111010 1101100 10110001000 1101 10101 11101 10001 1111 1001 1001 1111 11101 1011 1101 1101 1111 1101 1011 1001 1101 1101010111 01001 1 110111 1101010011 1101 01011111 110111 1111110001 100111 111111001 011111 1111010111 010111 010001001 0100101 0101000101 110010111 1100 01011101 01001 110010001 0101110111 1001010100 1101110101 1 1101110 1101010 0101010 1111111011010 11001110 0111010 11110 10011100010 0101110101 1101110101 110111 110101 01111100101 100101010 0101110111 1 100101 1100101 0111011101 1101011111 100101 010001 11001001001 0111010 110101 110011100101 0101010 10101110101110 0111011101 11011101010 0101010101 111101011 1100111111 010010111001 0101000101 11010011101 01010111001 110100 0100011111 0101010100 11010101 111101 011111110100 010111 101101 1100101001110 11001111001010 11 10011 010100 110001 110101 011101 01001011101 100101 1011010111 1100010101 1001011101 0101010101 0101 0100100101 1001001 0110101 1111110110 01011111000 101101 0111110100 011010010100 110101 010101 1011010111 1001111 1101000101 10001101 010111 0101010101000 11001 11100 1101001101 0101001 1101111101 1111 0100010101 0100111 011100 01011010101 01010101 0101 0101010111 101111 101111 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 165
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with are repeated.

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

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

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