This is an analysis of the poem Keepsake Mill that begins with:
Over the borders, a sin without pardon,
Breaking the branches and crawling below, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece cfcf adad XgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010110 1001011001 11010010010 1101001011 10010010010 1001001001 10010011010 1001011001 10010110110 1001001101 10111010010 1101001001 01111010010 1101111001 11110110110 1101001101 11010110010 1011011011 11110111010 1011011001 100111111100 1011001001 1001111101000 1111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here, with, of, stiller, and, wheel, home are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, wheel are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stiller connects the lines.
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