This is an analysis of the poem The Vale Of Tempe that begins with:
All night I lay upon the rocks:
And now the dawn comes up this way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece XfXf eaeX gXgX hcXc gege dXdX ijij cdcd ejej gkXk cgcg eded XiXi lmlm Xhgh cbcX Xmgm gaga dcdc jhjh iiii Xece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11011101 111100001 0101 11110111 01111111 01010111 10111 11110101 00110101 01111111 1111 1111111 11110101 1111100 1101 11111111 01010111 110111001 1100 11010111 0111100 11010111 0101 11010111 1101011 11011000 1101 11110001 11010111 11010111 1001 11110101 01111101 11010001 1101 1101011 11110001 10010001 01001 11011011 11000101 0100111 1101 01011111 01110101 01110111 0101 101101101 11011111 1110100 1111 11010011 01111111 01011101 0101 10111101 01110101 11010101 0101 11010100 11010101 111111000 1101 10111101 01110101 01010101 1101 0001100 11011101 100011111 0101 11011101 11111111 01010101 0100 111101010 01011001 11011101 0101 10111001 100101111 10110101 01001 11110111 00111101 111101001 1101 11010101 110001010 11010101 11010 11011111 11010111 10111101 0101 1111111 11111111 01111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 100
- 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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her are repeated.
The author used the same words where, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Vale Of Tempe;
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