This is an analysis of the poem The Well Of St. Keyne that begins with:
A Well there is in the west country,
And a clearer one never was seen;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdXd XeXe Xefe eghg eiei hbiX XehX XgXg giei hXXb Xcfc bXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011000110 101011011 1010100110 111001011 111111101 10111111 101100101 1001001 01001001011 100111 10011110100 111101001 1100101111 1101111 11110101 100111 110100111 1010101 10111100 1110101 1011010010011 10101101 0100111101 11011011 10110100111 1010100 1101111011 11100101100 101100101101100 0101101 101111001011 11110110 11001010110001 100101 101010100 11101001 1001000101 110101 01011101 11101011 1000111001 1101010 0101001011 11001001 1010011101000 1001011 10101110101 1100101 101011101011 1111001 1111101011 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, he, thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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