This is an analysis of the poem Spinning Songs that begins with:

A MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG
(A Young Girl sings it)...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdefdggXb hiigaiejXX gXkXlklbXc lfgXkgdkXm adXnodfmdhcXc ajagkX offX XfoX oiaX ajfXfXccX kXkonomX XXXhmXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,10,10,13,6,4,4,4,9,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 01110 0101 101110 11001010101 11111 1111 010110101 11010 01110 1100111110 1101 1001 0100 010011101 0101 001001 11010111 1111 1101 01010111 1111 1111 0111 10010001 0101 0111 01010101 1101 0111 01010101 1101 1111 1111 110001001 11101 01001 10110101 1101 00111 111111110 1111 1101 1101 101101001010 1111 00110 111011101 1101 1100 11111101 0111 00111 110111010 1101 110101 110110 1101011010 11101111 10110010111 111001110 1110111110 11011101001 010111111 010101111 111110110 1100100101 01010110010 1111011110 11011101010 111101101 11111010 11111101 011101 111010 1111101101 101010000 1100100111 101010000 1101101101 110110101 101010000 11111111 0010010010 1011110111 0101110 01010100 101111010 111001001 11110000 1000010000 111110000 11011100 10101001101 11111101001 10110000 11101101 101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; his, of, and, my, they, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, an, in are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines carricknabauna is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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