This is an analysis of the poem Told that begins with:
The air lay soffly on the green fur
of the almond, it was April ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX bc dc eX de eb Xa bX ee bd ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101011 00100110 11110101 11110011 01101110 0111110 0111010 100101010 01110 0110100 01110001 010110 1110110110 001 0110011 0110001 0101 1011101 11010100 00111010 00110101 011001 10011111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in, told are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines told is repeated).
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