This is an analysis of the poem Our Valley that begins with:
We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August
when the worst heat seems to rise from the hard clay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaacda eXXdeeXb bbcdeXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101101001110 10111010011 00101101010110 110001111010 110101101101111 01100100100101 101001001110010 0101110111110 110010110010 11111010111 10100111101 1011110110101 01011010111 1001011011 011010111101 1101111101 11001000011 00101110111101 1111010011 110110110101 1101000100101 11010111001 110110010110101 1101101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Our Valley;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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