This is an analysis of the poem Song—fairest Maid On Devon's Banks that begins with:
Chorus—Fairest maid on Devon banks,
Crystal Devon, winding Devon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bbXXC XbbbaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101011101 10101010 1111101 11111101 11111111 11010111 101101100 110101010 1011 11110001 11011111 11110111 11111111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; devon is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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