This is an analysis of the poem To Ellen, At The South that begins with:
The green grass is growing,
The morning wind is in it,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dcdc ebeX fcfc XdXd dgdg hchc fafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010 0101000 1011010 10110001 1010001 10011010 0010101 001010 101101010 1101010 010101010 10110 100101 110110 101111101 111100 1010111 110110 111001 10101010 101011 1010001 011111100 1111010 100101010 0110100 1101010 1111100 1010111 10101010 0010001 11101110 1011101 11101110 1011101 101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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