This is an analysis of the poem Down The Track that begins with:
In the deepening shades of twilight
Stood a maiden, young and fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdedE fgdgXedE haiaiefe cXXidede fjhjiede faXaXefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001011 1010111 11111110 1110001 10111110 1010111 101010100 0011101 10111010 1010101 10101110 1010101 11111110 1010101 101010100 0011101 11111110 1001011 10001010 0010001 00111010 1010101 10111010 1111101 10101010 1111101 11101010 10010101 10101110 1011111 101011100 1110101 10101110 1010101 10111011 1110101 00111010 1010111 11101110 1110101 10101010 1111111 11111110 11111101 11100110 1011101 00111010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rain, charlie are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word track at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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