This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Lane that begins with:

Summah night an' sighin' breeze,
'Long de lovah's lane;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBaBXXXB cBcbbbbB dBdBeeXB fBfBdddB aBabgggb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 10101 1010101 10101 1111111 1110101 1011101 10101 1010101 10101 1011111 11101 1111101 1110101 1110101 10101 1011111 10101 1011111 10101 1110111 1110111 1011101 10101 1111101 10101 1110101 10101 1011111 1110101 1110101 10101 1110101 10101 1010001 110101 1111111 1011101 01111111 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i are repeated.

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

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