This is an analysis of the poem Duddingstone that begins with:
WITH caws and chirrupings, the woods
In this thin sun rejoice.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe agfg gebe Xddd hhXh cigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110001 001101 01110101 110011 01111101 0010001 11010111 011101 11111111 1101001 01000111 110101 11011111 110111 01110101 0010101 11011101 111111 11011001 011001 11111101 111101 11010110 010111 11111101 111101 11110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; and, to are repeated.
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