This is an analysis of the poem Lexington that begins with:
Slowly the mist o’er the meadow was creeping,
Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXddX aeaeffgggg ahahffciic ababbbdeed acacjjbggbXaeaebbbddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011110 1101011001 10011010010 1011011001 100101 100101 1101011011 110101 100101 10110010010 10111011010 1001101011 10110010010 1011101101 100101 100101 1011111011 1000101 110101 1101011101 10011011010 0111001001 11011010110 1001001001 110101 100101 1111011111 110101 110101 1011001011 10010010110 1001101101 10110011110 1011011101 100101 100101 10010101111 100101 110111 1011001111 11011011010 1101011011 11011010010 1001011101 110101 100101 1101111001 110101 110101 1011001001 10011010110 1011011011 11110010110 1011011001 110101 110101 1011001101 1010101 111111 1011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; his, where, her are repeated.
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- summary of Lexington;
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