This is an analysis of the poem The Land Of Story-Books that begins with:
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff XXdd eeaa eegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101101 11111111 11111101 10110111 10010101 11010101 01010101 10011111 10110111 11111111 10010101 11011101 111101000 11010111 01010101 11010101 100100111 111011001 011101001 11111011 11010101 11010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, at, these are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
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