This is an analysis of the poem A Serenade At The Villa that begins with:

I.
That was I, you heard last night,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcb X adada X efefe X bebeb a agaga a hcXch X aiaiX X ghghg X ebebe h bcbcb a hjhjX XXgbhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111111 1111111 1010111 10100101 1111111 1 1010001 1010001 1010111 1011001 1110111 1 1100101 10010011 01101101 1010101 1011101 1 1111101 1111111 1010101 1110111 0111101 1 1110111 10111110 1100101 10101010 1111101 1 1010101 1111111 10111110 1010111 1110101 1 1101110 0011101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1 1011101 1011101 1111101 1001001 1110101 1 1110101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1010110 1 10101101 1010101 0010111 1010101 1101111 1 1110101 1000111 1110101 1111111 0110111 1 1111101 1011100 10101011 1110101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, when are repeated.

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