This is an analysis of the poem Song—the Gallant Weaver that begins with:
WHERE Cart rins rowin' to the sea,
By mony a flower and spreading tree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddbeeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 1100101101 11010111 1001010 1111111 11111101 11111111 11100010 1111101 01011101 10111111 1100010 110101010 1101010010 111101010 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, and, my, while, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, while are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word weaver at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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