This is an analysis of the poem For All Prisoners And Captives that begins with:
OVER the English trees and the English meadows
Twilight is falling clear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef cgXg chch ciciXcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101101011 110101 11111001011011 111111 111011101110 010111 1011101110110 1110101 1100111101010 111111 10101001001010 1011111 1100111101110 100111 10101001101110 010111 110101101110 1100111 10101101101010 010101 1101001101110 1101001 1011001101110 1010101 110101101110 0111101 10100111001010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, for are repeated.
The author used the same word night at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase night connects the lines.
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