This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of Counterpane that begins with:

When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 11110111 11110111 01110101 101111011 11110101 010010111 01011101 10111101 11110101 11111101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11011111 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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