This is an analysis of the poem The Axe-Helve that begins with:
I've known ere now an interfering branch
Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdabcefghbijkXcXdibllllmXnlcX c kX i ongccbdiXgk pcXqohqnXbckprbni ibpeXbXlbXmgbficXkh XlrdjkbdlccnbmlXilicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,1,2,1,11,17,19,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 01011101011 1110010111 0101010101 1111111101 0101011111 0111010111 1111010101 11010111010 1111100101 11111110010 10010101011 11001111110 1101110101 10110111010 11010100110 1101010101 11110110110 1111011111 1101111101 01011111111 11100111001 0011101101 0101011101 1011010101 1101011111 1111110101 0101111101 1111111110 11010101110 0101111111 10011101010 11111101110 01 11011101 0111010101 11010011010 0111111111 1111110101 1101010101 01011111011 111101110111 11101011101 11000100010 10110111010 01010101010 1001101101 1111010101 11110011011 1101111100 1111110101 01111101010 11011100111 1101111100 1111110111 11010100111 1101101101 11011111010 0111010111 1101111101 01010001001 0101100101 01010101010 10011101101 01000101111 0101111101 1110111111 11011011111 00111101011 11010101010 1001110001 0101010101 1111010001 0100010101 0101010111 11000111011 10111101110 01010011110 11010110011 1111111101 0111010111 11001111110 11111101110 01100101010 1101100101 1101110111 0111010101 001001101010 1110000011 0111001001 1101001010111 0100100101 1101010101 010101001110 1111010001 1101110101 0111010111 01111100010 1100010001 1111011111 1001001101 0111110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, he, me, you, i, her, and, keep, had, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
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