This is an analysis of the poem Each And All that begins with:

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,
Of thee, from the hill-top looking down;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccccaa adXdee fggeebbhff iiXfXXaa jXXcjXjhieXiXkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,10,8,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011111 010011101 10101100101 11111101 010100111 11110100 10111001 101111111 11011100 110110111 1110111 10011001 110101010 101110101 11110011100 1101101011 11011101011 1101111011 010011101 01000101 11010101 1010000101 10110101 11010111 11111101 101010101 11110101 00110110111 01010101 11010111 110101010 110110111 111100100 101001100100 01010101 01011101 11110101 100101010 11001001010 1110111 01110101 10100111 1010101 01110111 111101101 011100101 1011100 01110111 0101001010 1011101 1101100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, i 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.

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