This is an analysis of the poem Second-Best that begins with:
A Celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder's brown
daughter;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXaadecaXddbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010010101 10 0110010010 1001110101101 1001001101 10011011110101 0101010010 1100100100011010 1 1101101010 11001111010010010 0100110110 0101101001000010011 0101011110 1010001011010010 0100 001111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 733
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of is repeated.
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